Re: Slimming Down the database / Archiving

2022-10-06 Thread Tom
Thursday, October 6, 2022, 2:30:19 PM, you wrote: Sunday, July 3, 2022, 3:32:45 PM, you wrote: Hi Chris, I finally got around to doing this and I am happy to report a successful outcome. All these older messages are now combined in subfolders under Archive XXX and having this Account

Re: Slimming Down the database / Archiving

2022-10-05 Thread Tom
Sunday, July 3, 2022, 3:32:45 PM, you wrote: Hi Chris, I finally got around to doing this and I am happy to report a successful outcome. All these older messages are now combined in subfolders under Archive XXX and having this Account stored on a separate drive, does indeed reduce the size

Re[2]: Slimming Down the database / Archiving

2022-07-03 Thread Chris Wilson
Hello Tom, On Sunday, July 3, 2022, you wrote: T> Hi Chris, T> I finally got around to doing this and I am happy to report a successful outcome. T> All these older messages are now combined in subfolders under Archive XXX and T> having this Account stored on a separate drive, does

Re: Slimming Down the database / Archiving

2022-07-02 Thread Tom
T>> So, you guys never felt the need for this ? With 152 gb I would expect TB to be quite slow to open and having proper backups to be a pain? > I am getting old and forgetful. It suddenly occurred to me that I > had once asked a similar question here, and as I have kept all > messages from

Re[2]: Slimming Down the database / Archiving

2022-06-27 Thread Chris Wilson
Hello Tom, On Saturday, June 25, 2022, you wrote: T> Saturday, June 25, 2022, 6:33:05 PM, you wrote: >> On Saturday, June 25, 2022, 10:25:45, Chris Wilson wrote: >>> Watching with interest 40 + GB of mail and attachments here, which stored >>> in the current database is ridiculous >>

Re: Slimming Down the database / Archiving

2022-06-25 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Saturday, June 25, 2022, 14:07:36, Tom wrote: > So, you guys never felt the need for this ?  With 152 gb I would expect TB to > be quite slow to open and having proper backups to be a pain? Used to be that TB was a bit slow (=5 seconds) to open folders with more than ~9000 messages, but

Re: Slimming Down the database / Archiving

2022-06-25 Thread Tom
Saturday, June 25, 2022, 6:33:05 PM, you wrote: > On Saturday, June 25, 2022, 10:25:45, Chris Wilson wrote: >> Watching with interest 40 + GB of mail and attachments here, which stored in >> the current database is ridiculous > 152 GB here… So, you guys never felt the need for this ?

Re[2]: Slimming Down the database / Archiving

2022-06-25 Thread Chris Wilson
Hello Jernej, On Saturday, June 25, 2022, you wrote: JS> On Saturday, June 25, 2022, 10:25:45, Chris Wilson wrote: >> Watching with interest 40 + GB of mail and attachments here, which stored in >> the current database is ridiculous JS> 152 GB here… That's an amazing amount of mail,

Re: Slimming Down the database / Archiving

2022-06-25 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Saturday, June 25, 2022, 10:25:45, Chris Wilson wrote: > Watching with interest 40 + GB of mail and attachments here, which stored in > the current database is ridiculous 152 GB here… -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< https://eternallybored.org/ > Any fool can make a rule, and every

Re: Slimming Down the database / Archiving

2022-06-25 Thread Chris Wilson
Hello Tom, On Saturday, June 25, 2022, you wrote: T> Hello Everyone, T> my TB has grown over the years and the backup files are now more than T> gb in size. T> I would like to tidy up a bit without messing up everything. T> My idea is to create new Archive folders and then moving older

Slimming Down the database / Archiving

2022-06-25 Thread Tom
Hello Everyone, my TB has grown over the years and the backup files are now more than gb in size. I would like to tidy up a bit without messing up everything. My idea is to create new Archive folders and then moving older emails into these archive folders. Can I then remove these completely