Hello Stuart! On Thursday, May 12, 2005, 1:36 PM, you wrote:
> Can someone answer a couple of questions about attachments. I will try, for the few that I know the answer to. > I currently keep my attachments with my messages, but have been > contemplating the idea of keeping them separate. What are some of > the advantages/disadvantages? I keep mine separately. I don't know whether it's true, but my reason is that I think they would be easier to retrieve from the backup file, if necessary. > Do all accounts share the same attachment folder or is it by account > or by folder? Each account has a separate Attachments folder. I've just looked in my TB! directory--the path is The Bat!/MAIL/m.bull/Attach, and they are all accessible, a separate file to each attachment, arranged numerically/alphabetically. > I assume if you store them separately that the original message has > a pointer to the attachment? The original message keeps its attachment icon. So, I can look in my sister's folder in my m.bull account on TB!'s folder tree, and have another look from there at her Retirement "honors" poem, without having saved that attachment file in "My Documents" or wherever, necessitating a search through one of my text editors/word processors. To me it's the best of both worlds--attachment available through my TB! folder for my sister, or, if I've saved it, through opening it in a text editor. Further, even if I didn't save it and I remember what she named it when she sent it to me, I can ask Word or Open Office to look in C:/Program Files/The Bat!!/MAIL/m.bull/Attach, and retrieve it to the word processor that way. > What happens when you receive 2 attachments in separate messages > that are named the same thing. Does one overwrite the other? I don't know. I'll try an experiment with that, with some mails to myself, and see if I can report back to you later on what happens. > TIA You're welcome. However, others may know more about the mechanics of this and the advantages/disadvantages than I do. :) -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 3.5 Return RC8 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
