large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread K. Shantanu
Hi, A friend of mine has recently started using The Bat! and has over 50,000 messages in it (most imported from OE). The problem is that it takes quite a while to close The Bat!. It shows "Compressing folders" for more than a couple of mins. Is there any way to get around this suitation? Thanks, S

Re: large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Dear K, @2-Feb-2005, 07:41 -0600 (02-Feb 13:41 UK time) K. Shantanu [KS] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ... KS> takes quite a while to close The Bat!. It shows "Compressing folders" KS> for more than a couple of mins. KS> Is there any way to get around this suitation? The best way I find is to

Re: large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread Gerard
ON Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 2:41:09 PM, you wrote: KS> Hi, KS> A friend of mine has recently started using The Bat! and has over KS> 50,000 messages in it (most imported from OE). The problem is that it KS> takes quite a while to close The Bat!. It shows "Compressing folders" KS> for more than

Re: large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread Britt Malka
Hi K., Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 2:41:09 PM you wrote: > It shows "Compressing folders" for more than a couple of mins. Is > there any way to get around this suitation? Yes. Account -> Properties -> Options -> Remove v from Compress folders on exit. -- Kind regards, Britt Malka |\

sorting office

2005-02-02 Thread K. Shantanu
Hi, I have not used The Bat! for a long time. I switched to *nix when The Bat! was 1.38e. So, I need some help here for my friends who I am turning into The Bat! users. A friend received around 1000 email in Inbox (for a newly created account). Now she has to sort all the mails with Subject contin

Re: large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread K. Shantanu
* Britt Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050202 08:56]: > Hi K., > > Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 2:41:09 PM you wrote: > > > It shows "Compressing folders" for more than a couple of mins. Is > > there any way to get around this suitation? > > Yes. > > Account -> Properties -> Options -> Remove v

Re[2]: large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread Norbert Luckhardt
hiyall, > * Britt Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050202 08:56]: KS> Thanks all for the tip. I will indeed remove Compression and see for KS> speed difference. KS> Is there any chance with using the compression facility (even a remote KS> chance) that I might lose data in any case? yes, there is! es

Re: large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread Gerard
ON Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 4:18:58 PM, you wrote: KS> Is there any chance with using the compression facility (even a remote KS> chance) that I might lose data in any case? It is actually the other way around, if you do not use it the change for file corruption increases. You will need to p

Re[2]: large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread Norbert Luckhardt
hiyall, G> ON Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 4:18:58 PM, you wrote: KS>> Is there any chance with using the compression facility (even a remote KS>> chance) that I might lose data in any case? G> It is actually the other way around, if you do not use it the change for file G> corruption increases.

Re: large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread Britt Malka
Hi K., Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 4:18:58 PM you wrote: > Is there any chance with using the compression facility (even a remote > chance) that I might lose data in any case? I don't think so, but with computers you can never be sure :-) Be beware if you make a backup that you cannot restor

Re: large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread K. Shantanu
* Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050202 11:37]: > > ON Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 4:18:58 PM, you wrote: > KS> Is there any chance with using the compression facility (even a remote > KS> chance) that I might lose data in any case? > > It is actually the other way around, if you do not use it the

Re[2]: large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread Norbert Luckhardt
hiyall, KS> Can someone tell why NOT compressing and purging the data increases KS> chances of data corruption. if there is substantial "movement" of messages in the folder, the mailbox file grows and becomes more and more fragmented as the system is only marking deleted mails as such... so the i

Re: sorting office

2005-02-02 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Dear K, @2-Feb-2005, 09:15 -0600 (02-Feb 15:15 UK time) K. Shantanu [KS] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ... KS> I can do it for one Subject string from Sorting Office - Filters. KS> But cannot get The Bat! to filter (manually) with more than 1 KS> string. Any tips? You haven't said which vers

Re: large mailboxes

2005-02-02 Thread Gerard
ON Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 6:43:17 PM, you wrote: NL> if no messages are moving in and out, nothing happens of course... Which does not seem to be the case otherwise P+C would not take minutes. -- Best regards, Gerard -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=