>01/07/2006 07:27 PM chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>eMailer is fine. Worked well for many joyful years. Still works, >>except.... >> >>Now it take 3+ min. to quit out of the program every time. >> >>Mail is about 609.8 mb, and mail index is about 89.4 mb >> >>Is there such a thing as reaching close to the limit? The same machine / >>hardware / software setup was behaving rather snappy always till recently. >> >>Normal rebuild of mail database once, but didn't show any improvement. > >Are you running in Classic under OS X? > >If so, make sure you leave the mouse cursor on the window that shows it >is deleting old mail. If you move if off that window, OS X puts the task >in the background and Emailer slows to a crawl. > >Even under OS 9 and earlier this happens if you click on another >application and thus move Emailer to the background. But at least with OS >9 and earlier, you have to manually decide to do that, and take an actual >action to cause it. With OS X, all you need do is move the mouse cursor >off the Emailer window and OS X does it automatically. > >Annoying, but that seems to be the way OS X handles Classic (it isn't >unique to Emailer, it happens with any Classic app) > >-chris ><http://www.mythtech.net> > >
Thanks Chris. That's very valid and known problem with mix of classic in OS X. But the slow quitting behavior is now happening while in Classic mode or when booting only with OS 9. I ran the test on booting 10.4.3 or 9.2.2, and even rebuild mail data files. While removing the mail data file and the index file, the program ran, complaint about scripts, but ran, and quit very quickly (in a matter of 1-2 seconds). This made me believe that the database file (mail database) is getting too big and the index file is maxing out. So, 100 MB is about the max for the index file size? I rebuilt the database and index files already. Is there any other ways to reduce the file size, or simply delete a pile of files and rebuild again? Ah, I got an idea. make a copy of the mail database/index files and archive the backup copy for all mail up to 2005. Then go in to delete all email prior to 2005, keep it lean and hopefully I don't need to look up something from before 1/1/2005. Later. Shenan www.quadmation.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
