On 11 January 2002 at 2:27 pm Joe wrote: > Friday, January 11, 2002, 1:13:06 AM, you wrote:
> [...] >> Try deleting old messages if possible, or archive them. > May I ask you how you usually go about archiving your old messages? > I assume you mean to completely remove them from TB! and place them somewhere > else, e.g., onto removable storage media? > Does this really improve the performance of TB!? > How? > And if so, at what point does this improvement occur? As far as I can see (with anything from 0 to the current 30,000 messages in TB!) there is no performance hit, in basic use, as far as I can see, and no crashing irrespective of the size of the message base. This is a remarkable achievement, and a rare one for Windows packages (which tend to progressively collapse as more and more is stuffed into them) :) Of course, things like searches, which may have to traverse the entire folder tree, slow down as the message base gets bigger, but nothing can be done about that. I archive to CD-RW each night and to CD-R about every 50,000 messages or so, but this is solely to keep the message base a manageable size for myself. What I do when I want to clear out TB! is a complete backup (Tools | Backup) to CD-R then delete the contents of each folder by hand*. Alastair * a useful facility would allow you to delete all messages _but_ keep the folder tree intact. This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
