With all respect to folks (including Marlyse whose email I'm using to
reply to), archiving is a marvy solution for some, but others choose
otherwise. The notion that people "should" archive "because I do," is
purely subjective; one of the beauties of the Mac is that we can work
the way we choose to.
Of course I archive work projects. They go on our server in client
project folders, my development machine has tools and scratch files,
that's all. My productivity machine, on the other hand, is a PowerBook
and contains all my productivity data, and I'm (again, this is me)
against archiving my email out of my mail app. As I've said earlier
today, my preference is to have one place to search, and I really don't
care how big the database gets (well, at least I don't want to have to).
If I could have multiple databases open simultaneously in PM, that'd be
fine too.
I still have no idea *how* someone is supposed to get to a point where
they have two user environments or databases or whatever in PM, short of
just starting a new one from scratch (which really doesn't do any
intelligent separation other than "everything before a date." Can anyone
shed some light on this so I can at least try this out?
</rant> (I promise)
Steve
On 10/27/06 at 2:22 PM, Marlyse Comte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>I do understand the notion, though, even your hard drive isn't big
>enough to keep all what you do from all the years past and current on 1
>drive. Well, at least not if you in graphics with big images and 3D and
>animation etc. - So things have to get archived or tossed or new,
>additional hard drives need to be bought and installed.
>
>Not even Google goes over the 2 gig storage per user... and it heavily
>advertises as "access ALL your mail in one spot" - with other words,
>probably most of us are pack rats and even keep stuff around they'll
>NEVER use again - for example, my archives have harvested messages from
>tons of list servers with software questions relating to software
>versions so long gone, I'd have to bring up my 840 AV and system 7 just
>to be able to load it - but still, I have it in my archives.
>
>Cleaning household and archiving is a good thing, the bigger the
>accumulation, the longer searches take because it constantly has to sift
>though old stuff and also indexing gets slower the bigger the database.
>Even memories we categorize into "childhood" etc., so why not pack old
>email into the memory slot called "archive"? I do a cleanup about 1x a
>year - it's like spring cleaning and keeps my databases sane.
>
>---marlyse
>
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>>Just FWIW, I access older mail sometimes, albeit frequently. The issue
>>is that I don't want to have to search here, then there, then the other
>>place, etc. If I think "email," that's where I want to look, you know?
>
>
Steve Abrahamson
Ascending Technologies
FileMaker 7 Certified Developer
http://www.asctech.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
