>On Jan 4, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Don wrote: > >> Then in order to go a step further and have total access >> all the time, I changed the name of the preferences file >> it calls (requires a small bit of Res Edit work) and it >> is then possible to run both the archives copy, and the >> regular copy at the same time. > > >Just move the prefs file into the Emailer application folder, then >you don't need to rename it. Emailer will look in its own folder for >a prefs file before looking in the Claris folder in the System >folder. If it finds one it its own folder, it will use it.
Didn't know that part. Of course there are a few more details I didnt mention in the explanation... if someone actually wants to do something of that nature. They'd probably have a few questions when they really went to do it. >Doing that will enable you to have as many copies running at the same >time as you please. I've renamed it a number of times over the years so there are actually about 8 different copies available across two versions for old archives and long since terminated email addresses. >> Then just for the humor factor, I switched the Archive >> copy to use an entirely different email address. That >> makes it possible to send myself emails between different >> addresses on opposite monitors of the same machine. Why >> anybody (other than me) might have an excuse to do that I >> dunno... but it was funny realizing that it was possible. > >You can do that without using multiple email addresses, just don't >set one of them to auto collect email. The whole discussion is sorta irrelevant since C.E. can handle multiple addresses in the first place and it was really about cutting down the size of a working archive inside of a single copy. I just like the separation of old mails by use of the 'Archives' as well as the giggle factor of sending email 'to myself'. >> (can you say five monitors >> side by side by ...) > >I used to have 4 in regular use, plus a 5th part time, plus a 6th >across the room in almost regular use. I had two to my left, one >stacked on top of the other (both 15", the lower was a 2nd for my >main machine for things like email and AIM, the upper was for a 2nd >Mac under my desk), a 19" in front of me for my main machine, and a >17" to the right for my PC (it was on a KVM controlling 3 different >PCs under my desk). Then I had a part time iMac also to my right that >was used for testing, and the 6th across the room was on a shelf over >my service desk for whatever computer was being worked on, it was >also usually running with something almost all the time. > >All that is gone now, and I just have a little ol' laptop with a 13" >screen as my primary work machine, I then use RD to connect to >everything else thru the office or at the data center (I'm hoping to >at least add a 2nd wide screen LCD soon as being down to one screen >for everything, even using 10.5's spaces is still less convenient >then having a 2nd monitor) 'less convenient'????? A 13" as your "primary work screen" ????? ICK!!! RD? Ya lost me on that. What's 'RD'? Is that like maybe... remote desktop or something? Guess that would at least make it ... barely tolerable if you can reach across to other monitors remotely. Then again, I s'pose if you're sitting right by them and using them 'remotely' that would be interesting to see how it worked. I use 2 17's on the sides of a 19" and its hard to think in terms of less than three monitors. The other machine sometimes feels cramped at 2 x 17" >> there are occasions that call for >> sending myself file transfer emails between the two >> machines. One is used as the OSX machine and the other >> is still on OS9. > >Why email for file transfers? Why not just us regular file sharing? >Much faster and usually easier once it is setup. A little because I didn't feel like setting up sharing. Bad excuse if that was all there was to it though. Partly because the last time I tried that, it seemed to destabilize the OS9 machine enough that things were crashing way too often... so I just shut sharing down and never really went back to try it again. That might have even been on a different machine a couple years ago so perhaps is really irrelevant now. Having said that, emailing is ... a: Predictable b: understood c: easy and quick and MOST importantly... d: not done often enough to offset fiddling with any instabilities that otherwise ~might~ be introduced IOW, why would I do it by file sharing... that ~might~ be too friggin easy! >-chris ><www.mythtech.net> Don ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>
