Paul Collett wrote:
Is anyone using Time Machine with Leopard? How do you find the backups
work if you have your Powermail folder included?
As with all other backup softwares, making a backup of PowerMail's
database while PowerMail is open (especially with a scheduled
connection) can probably
On 12/11/07 (12:24) PowerMail said:
As with all other backup softwares, making a backup of PowerMail's
database while PowerMail is open (especially with a scheduled
connection) can probably produce a corrupted backup. Additionally, your
entire mail database will be backed up every hour (assuming
Not knowing much about Leopard, not putting it on until it's working
nicely!!, I have however deleted all files ending in .old many times as
they take up SO much space and only appear after compacting Database
anyway so as long as your main Database is working then there is no need
for such files
copy of what was sent to PowerMail support:
When using a name containing an apostrophe in the name part ( I have yet
to see such an email address) then the displayed name will be shortened
to the letters prior to the letter with an apostrophe. So Camilla
Berndzén will be shortened to Camilla
Rick Lecoat said:
Which rather brings us back, full circle, to the point I made a couple
of weeks ago: that I find an automated and regular backup strategy is
made difficult by Powermail, (and it's insistence upon erasing the
recent mail record if the application is closed down -- for backup
anyone know of a mailmaster address for the list? I'd like to pint out
that some adress possibly [EMAIL PROTECTED] needs to be
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Bob Parks (11/11/07, 19:45) said:
TM seems much better suited for use with email programs that maintain a
lot of separate files rather than one big database.
I *really* wish PowerMail would follow other email programs in splitting
its database into separate databases for each email folder:
1.
On 12/11/07 (13:13) MB said:
If one can make do with manual export it is possibly the best approach
to search and find on after a specific received date and export that in
PowerMail exchange format.
However I do have messages in my DB that was fetched on a future date by
mistake (wrong machine
Rick Lecoat said:
As far as I can tell, Powermail is still in direct conflict with
anything resembling an automated backup (at least with regard to my
workflow -- others' mileage may of course vary), simply by dint of the
fact that it needs to be shut down before a backup takes place.
In all
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Re:Time Machine discussion.
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Re: Time Machine discussion.
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Re: Time Machine discussion.
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Re: Time
Lecoat wrote:
Which rather brings us back, full circle, to the point I made a couple
of weeks ago: that I find an automated and regular backup strategy is
made difficult by Powermail,
I respectfully disagree.
First, my experience with SuperDuper is different from yours. It
automatically backs
My understanding is that Apple is encouraging software developers to
find ways to break changes to large databases into smaller chunks.
There is an inherent problem with backing up large files which have
incremental changes. In order to have a backup you do have to copy the
entire file. The
Jeremy Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I *really* wish PowerMail would follow other email programs in splitting
its database into separate databases for each email folder:
I'm not sure I'd agree. I suppose that the internal handling of mails is
much simpler and faster if every mail resides
Richard Hart wrote:
Lecoat wrote:
Which rather brings us back, full circle, to the point I made a couple
of weeks ago: that I find an automated and regular backup strategy is
made difficult by Powermail,
I respectfully disagree.
First, my experience with SuperDuper is different from yours.
MB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
When using a name containing an apostrophe in the name part ( I have yet
to see such an email address) then the displayed name will be shortened
to the letters prior to the letter with an apostrophe. So Camilla
Berndzén will be shortened to Camilla Berndz for
Richard Hart wrote:
First, my experience with SuperDuper is different from yours. It
automatically backs up my disk drive while PowerMail is running. I have
no problems restoring my mail.
Tim Lapin wrote:
I can't speak for Leopard but I can tell you that Silver Keeper has
never given
MB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
When using a name containing an apostrophe in the name part ( I have yet
to see such an email address)
And you will never see one, because accented letters (and all other
characters outside the ASCII character set, plus some ASCII characters)
are not allowed in
Michael J. Hußmann said:
You are really talking about accented letters
Yes. Thanks for the correct term.
So far, I've experienced no problems
with names containing accented characters, umlauted characters, or other
characters outside the ASCII range (and my address book contains quite a
few of
PowerMail Engineering told us:
Doing a backup while PowerMail is running is better than no backup at
all, and it will *probably* not produce a corrupted backup as long as no
change to the database is made during the backup (ie, no scheduled
connection). But you should not rely exclusively on
Mikael wrote:
I thought there were backup apps that actually could
backup only the data that was different in the file.
Not that I'm aware of. Incremental backup is for FILES that have
changed, not data inside a file.
RH
Am/On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:20:36 +0100 schrieb/wrote MB:
Michael J. Hußmann said:
You are really talking about accented letters
Yes. Thanks for the correct term.
So far, I've experienced no problems
with names containing accented characters, umlauted characters, or other
characters outside the
The following applescript can be run by SuperDuper just before backup to
Quit PowerMail, and save any open messages.
Quit_PowerMail_If_Running_Save_Drafts.applescript
set targetApp to PowerMail
tell application System Events
set
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