> On Apr 3, 2016, at 5:31 AM, Paul Sture <mai...@techchat.ch> wrote: > > FWIW I've been experimenting with archiving newsgroup posts (as .eml files) > in EagleFiler and on this Mac mini things started getting slow and > beachballing at something like 100,000 posts. One simple answer there is to > split them into separate EagleFiler libraries, e.g. work related groups / > general interest groups. Alternatively splitting it into folders by year > might help at the OS X file system level.
In EagleFiler it's best to merge the .eml files into mailbox files so that you have one file per group/folder rather than one per post: http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/help/merge-mailboxes-message Aside from helping with the filesystem issue, this also lets EagleFiler apply various RAM and index optimizations. --Michael _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
