Hello Marek, > Msgbases grows and if has user thousands of messages in hundreds folders, > TB becomes slow and eats much memory when loading msgbases. These messages > are mainly archives of mailinglists and are used for searching only, so it > is not needed to have them accessible via TB's interface, they can be > stored on HDD or CD and TB will search them without loading them on start. > BTW if they are stored on CD, user must create folders in TB and assign > them to folders on CD to using them for searching.
It was not my 'invention', I think it was Vili who suggested it a long time ago, but I have solved this issue by creating a password protected account that I call 'Archive'. As you may know, password protected accounts are not loaded and opened (and therefore don't take any resources) until you manually open them. What I have done is somewhat replicate the folder structure (just folders I wan to archive) of my 3 main accounts in Archive account. Then, in the folder Properties of those folders I want to archive, in the Deletion tab I set up 'Alternative deletion' to move messages to corresponding folder in Archives and to use alternative deletion when purging. This way, for example, I keep only the last 3 months worth of messages in my TBBeta folder plus almost 3 years worth in the corresponding TBBeta folder in Archives account. If I want to search all messages, all I have to do is open the Archives account and enter password prior to running the search. This solution works great for me. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v3.71.03 on Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.71.03 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
