dman84 wrote:
> Steven wrote:
>
>> Phillip M. Jones, C
>>
>>
>>>> I just dropped the contents of a _copy_ of the communicator mail folder
>>>> in a new folder in the the local files. What happened was that each
>>>> subfolder was converted when it was selected in Netscape Mail & News.
>>>> This took some time for larger folders. It looked like the folder was
>>>> receiving mail, what happened was a msf file was created next to the
>>>> snm file. I gues I can simply trash the snm files now. I have not seen
>>>> any problems so far.
>>>>
>>>> Steven
>>>>
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>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. dump the snm's My original coment was if you pointed to a Profile
>>> in the Nescape User Folder in in system preferences. doing as you did
>>> should not be a problem.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks everybody for all the comments and help, everything works fine now
>> as far as I can see, I still wonder though why the 'official' method
>> to migrate
>> a profile would take so much disk space...
>>
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>
>
> because all file attachments are stored inside of your email file..
> thats what causes them to be really large. Even after you save them to
> another folder on you drive, they are still stored in there till you
> delete those emails from your mail folders.
>
> -dman84
>
You've said the same thing in a previous post, but I don't understand
how this answers the question. The original profile occupies X bytes;
it includes all the attachments encoded as text (usually base64). Why
does the conversion process require more than "on the order of" X bytes?
How much space DOES the conversion process need? Is it 4X, 10X,
100X...? What do attachments have to do with it?
FWIW, I have encountered the same problem, and am seeking an optimal
solution.
Mark
