OK, dumb question, how does one get FoxTrot to search the Powermail database. It doesn't seem to do it for me.
Ron CTM info wrote on 10/27/06: >Ladies and Gentlemen, > >In the process of moving PowerMail to XCode and Intel, we discussed long >and hard the matter of maximum database size and have decided, for >technical and philosophical reasons, that the right thing to do was to >keep the 2GB limit. > >First, a foreword: our strong feeling is that adding daily to an active >database larger than 1.9GB for the sole purpose of having everything >within the current database accessible "just in case" is like carrying >around one's entire savings in one's wallet, for the sake of being able >to buy anything you might run into (a house, boat or even a lake) "just >in case" you run into such an opportunity in the course of day. In both >cases, the risk of compromising what you're trying to protect greatly >outweighs the benefit, and most people would rather be on the safe side. > >Furthermore, one of the features implemented long ago (in PowerMail 3) >is the ability to switch user environments either by the ad hoc menu >option in the File menu - which lets you open any number of offline or >otherwise inactive 1.9 GB databases and perform searches in them with >the built-in search facility. We even have a quick way of switching user >environments, which is to alias offline Message Databases and double- >click on them to go from one environment to another in a few seconds. > >Finally, we addressed the simultaneous aspects (having the ability to >work on a large database, while being able simultaneously to search in >other large databases) when we wrote FoxTrot Personal Search, which >indexes *and previews message content of* any number of current and >offline PowerMail database contents. The big advantage of using FoxTrot >Personal Search for large archives over PowerMail is that you are >accessing your archives in a Read Only fashion, which means you never >run the risk of compromising a large amount of data, nor needing to >rebuild it or so. > >So there you go. Yes, this is a political decision, as are many design >decisions since we've been writing software; we've really tried to take >a vast majority of usages into account before making it, and feel >comfortable that we've done what is good for our users. > >Cheers, > >jean michel/ctm qa > >
