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MB - excellent point - I've used the sparsebundle option for my notebook when I travel, although the primary objective was to have my data encrypted without using Apple's home folder encryption model. For long trips I carry a backup drive so I can backup my notebook when crashplan can't communicate over the internet. Yes, I HATE losing data. Crashplan does charge per seat, but if you only need daily backup the free version is really nice. I believe you can mix and match versions on various machines, although I've not tried that. I remember when the only decent Mac tool was Retrospect, today there are lots of excellent products. +---+ Bill Schjelderup, President b...@companioncorp.com COMPanion Corporation801-365-0555 voice 1831 Fort Union Blvd. 801-943-7752 fax Salt Lake City, Utah 84121-3041 www.companioncorp.com +---+ Nusquam est qui ubique est. - He who is everywhere is nowhere. This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are NOT the intended recipient, I'm sorry to bother you and will attempt to address my messages more carefully in the future. Peter Lovell skrev 2010-11-12 00.31: the PM database is great for storage and access efficiency, but not so good for incremental backup. Only with suboptimal tools that is. The sparsebundle image idea is also quite useful for those that can't switch backup solution quickly. /MB
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I think the idea of one file per folder is an interesting compromise. The current single large database concept doesn't work anymore. It's bad for the power users with 2 gig of messages - but it's also very bad for people using Time Machine style backups. My Time Machine backup probably is running 30 minutes out of every hour - and it's all due to Powermail. This constant activity slows down my system and the network - the opposite of the intent of PowerMail to be an efficient solution. On 11-Nov-10, at 9:13 AM, Tobias Jung wrote: So I merely guessed that there might be people here who don't like thousands of message files, too. I like it (conceptually)... don't know that it has a benefit. Might even hurt as regards system performance, no? I just wish the files were clear .txt files, so the OS itself could search within the email content. -- John Snippe
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I just checked - PowerMail is responsible for 90% of of the backup activity on my system. (I use TimeMachine). The problem is that if just one email comes in an hour (which always happens), the complete database gets backed up again. One database per folder would reduce the backup requirements dramatically. There would be less load on the system, and my Time Machine would be able backups for a much longer time period.
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Time machine has some very nice characteristics, but don't use it over a network. Check out Crashplan.com -- the basic software is free. I moved my company to it this summer, and it's working great. The free version does a backup once a day, or you can buy a version that can do more frequent backups, like hourly. I use the free version to backup all my family machines to my big home machine. As for powermail - there are a few things I don't like, but for the most part it does what I need and I've not seen anything else that matches it. I get 300-500 emails a day, much of it spam, or routine stuff. I toss out about 300+ messages a day. I archive certain folders every year, if I need to search the data, I can. When Powermail 7 comes out, I'll upgrade without a thought. I've lived with it's little bugs and weirdness for years...I've not lost data, and I can find what I need. I'm just happy there are developers who want to create products that so many people are giving away. I hope CTM can keep it's customer base so they can invest in future releases so I hope those who need 2gb+ mail databases can get what they want and stick with the product. +---+ Bill Schjelderup, President b...@companioncorp.com COMPanion Corporation801-365-0555 voice 1831 Fort Union Blvd. 801-943-7752 fax Salt Lake City, Utah 84121-3041 www.companioncorp.com +---+ Nusquam est qui ubique est. - He who is everywhere is nowhere. This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are NOT the intended recipient, I'm sorry to bother you and will attempt to address my messages more carefully in the future. I just checked - PowerMail is responsible for 90% of of the backup activity on my system. (I use TimeMachine). The problem is that if just one email comes in an hour (which always happens), the complete database gets backed up again. One database per folder would reduce the backup requirements dramatically. There would be less load on the system, and my Time Machine would be able backups for a much longer time period. TimeMachineEditor is a free software to stop TimeMachine's every-hour-backup. With this software you can choose and program the starting times by your own. (I'm very satisfied with and make only four TimeMachine-backups a day.) http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/
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At Tue, 9 Nov 2010 22:31:50 -0400, the quick nimble fingers of Sean McBride wrote: Thank you John, good to know that I'm not the only one. In case CTM keeps ignoring my question about the limit, I'm afraid that I have to drop PM too. Which email client are you all switching to? I'm not sure which to choose I have not dropped PM, but have switched to using Apple Mail for my IMAP accounts (Gmail etc.). As a result, I am already looking at Jean Michel's suggestion of using FoxTrot. However, for people trying to work around the 2GB limit, being asked to buy another application is not a good answer, IMHO. This has nothing to do with the 2GB limit, but is more to do with the fact that one of the accounts was rarely used, but I wanted all the backlog of messages on my own computer. Mark -- Inter-Lingual (Mark Smith) 1-8-22 Saidaiji-kitamachi Nara, Nara Prefecture 631-0817
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Barbara Needham (barbara...@newsguy.com) wrote at Di, 9. Nov 2010, 22:32 Uhr: The closest I've found to PowerMail [on the dark side... Windows] is Thunderbird. There are als some clients based on Thunderbird, e.g. Postbox: http://www.postbox-inc.com/ Paul
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Sean McBride (cwat...@cam.org) wrote at Di, 9. Nov 2010, 22:31 Uhr: Which email client are you all switching to? I'm not sure yet which mailclient to use in the future. At the moment I'm testing different ones. Paul
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On 11/10/10 5:29 AM, Paul Schneider powerm...@speedware.at wrote: Sean McBride (cwat...@cam.org) wrote at Di, 9. Nov 2010, 22:31 Uhr: Which email client are you all switching to? I'm not sure yet which mailclient to use in the future. At the moment I'm testing different ones. Paul For a blog on all my attempts to switch out and testing various email programs, it is quite extensive: http://incisivereview.wordpress.com/2010/08/ I think now that I think back on it, Perhaps the 2 gig limit was preventing me from transferring my files from Entourage to PM and from PM to any other program. I was losing a lot of data. I was hoping MS 2011's Outlook might save me, but the early reviews are NOT good. Adam Engst of Tidibits tried to use it and then bailed out. If I were starting fresh, I might choose Postbox as the most easy to use and most intuitive of the programs. But right now I'm back to Entourage full time. Jeff Jefferis Peterson, Pres. Web Design and Marketing http://www.PetersonSales.com (724)-482-2015
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John Snippe (j...@snippe.ca) wrote at Fr, 5. Nov 2010, 15:22 Uhr: I saw the reply to that email... I have read the reply too but still I didn't get an answer to my question. For the stated reasons workarounds are no solution, to take a decision I have to know if they will drop the limit in the next future. Paul
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CTM info (ctm-li...@ctmdev.com) wrote at Do, 21. Okt 2010, 23:59 Uhr: No, we haven't ceased support or answering, we have tied up amidst releasing new versions of our FoxTrot line of products [and the associated technical answers] and personal issues, it is true that PowerMail support has languished and I apologize for this. It really shouldn't take this long to get back to you. Nice to hear from you thanks for your answer! Two questions to you: - Are you regularly compacting your database ? Yes. Every time PowerMail reminds me to do it. What is the size of your database afterwards ? 1.8 GB. - Have you tried the archiving function in PowerMail, which we precisely designed as a way to move older data out of one's database ? Yes I have tried the archiving function in Power Mail but I need contemporary access to older and newer data, so archiving is no solution for me. I appreciate the great filter and search function in Power Mail but they only make sense when all mails are in the same database. Are there plans to on give up the 2 GB limit? Paul
