On 9/15/02 8:02 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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>On 9/14/02 9:47 PM, David Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said;
>
>>Backing up your machine every 8 hours and regularly rebuilding your
>>database after exporting old messages can be a godsend as well. :)
>>David
>
>I was wondering about this. I was wondering if I am one of the few who
>rebuild my Emailer db as often as I do? I tend to see Emailer's rebuild
>much in the same way as one of my first Mac programs, ACT!, With ACT!, it
>recommended doing regular reindexing and compacting of its DB. The ACT!
>manual made it very clear that not keeping up with the rebuilding and the
>reindexing would, not could, cause problems. And while there is only a
>small time hit in doing it, rebuilding even a deep level takes less time
>that a desktop rebuild on this Mac.
>
>I rarely go more than a couple of days without rebuilding. Sometimes a
>week or two but usually once a day. And I don't see a great time lag
>between the two levels of rebuilding so I usually go for the deeper of
>the two.
>
>Maybe that is why I have not yet had the corrupted temp problems that I
>hear about from time to time? Or maybe I have just been veeeeery lucky so
>far. Murphy's law: Never brag about a disease or a problem you haven't
>yet had, unless you really want to experience it very soon.
Wow. I've gone like a couple of years without rebuilding. I basically
rebuild only when I have a problem, and Emailer has been so rock-solid
stable it just hasn't been necessary. I've only rebuilt maybe three or
four times since I first bought Emailer back in 1995 or 96.
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