flyguy wrote:
Daniel wrote:
flyguy wrote:
Taking a closer look, I can see the biggest one is the Trash at ~7000
messages. That's with a 60 day retention period. The Inbox is only 200,
but at times gets closer to 1000; again, a 60 day retention policy. She
belongs to a number of busy sewing and quilting groups, which are
filtered to individual folders, but she deletes most of those messages,
so they don't build up.
As long as I remember to compact manually now and then when she's not at
her desk, then usually no complaints. This last one was probably due to
an ISP quirk, and not the compacting.
Why does anyone want to store (i.e. keep) anything in the Trash
folder...for one day let alone 60 days??
Make yourself/your Wife some extra folders to store the data in!!
It's not be "stored" in the Trash, it's "deferred deletion" like the
Recycle Bin. If you haven't needed it after 60 days, you can probably
live without it, and the system does finally automatically delete it.
She does save messages she wants to keep in various folders.
Personally, I pull stuff out of the Trash a few times a month, sometimes
to save, sometimes because a situation I thought was over comes back to
life, but usually just remind myself of something. I use a 90 day
retention period, which is satisfactory 99.99% of the time. Very rarely,
not even once a year, I might have to go to a mail backup file and find
what I've after.
O.K., well if that's the situation then you should probably know that
when you move an e-mail from the inbox to the Trash folder, it's not
really moved, it's just marked for deletion (one of the bits in the
header is changed from a zero to a one, or something).
Then, when you Empty Trash, all the stuff that's still in your inbox
that's marked for deletion is actually deleted. Until then, the e-mail
is still in your inbox file, just not showing.
So having all these e-mails still, really, in your inbox is why it's
taking soooooo long to re-index.
I was going to suggest that you stop Trashing these messages, but maybe
you could try marking them as "Junk", but I think that would really be
the same thing.
So I've got no suggestion, unless it's to manually move the messages to
another folder and then manually delete them some time later!
Daniel
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