Chris, I like the idea of it limiting the size of Emailer archive this way. But saving things to a single text file takes more clicks than simply dragging to a filing system. Then you've got to deal with it later. What I do with my 'list' correspondence after backing up (which unfortunately is not as often as I'd like) is simply delete the whole file/folder at the end of the year. But then I have other stuff with is ongoing that I need to refer to with my work. That's where the size I guess begins to matter.
Though you remember my last crash when I had to start a whole new Claris file! I have to go to my old machine to check up on things or forward the Email to that machine to sustain the continuity! Not really good. I guess we can't have it all :( Bea >On May 31, 2007, at 7:29 PM, William D. Bandes wrote: > >> Am I missing something here, with all you really power-user >> types keeping bloated databases? > >I've never understood it either. But some people obsessively keep >every last email they ever get, and can't bring themselves to >throwing them out. > >Personally, I get lots of email that I can't dispose of for long >periods of time, but I don't need to keep them in my email app. I >archive them to a single text file for easy searching, and stick them >with the job files they go with when the job wraps up. Sometimes that >means they are in my mail app for a few weeks, other times longer, >but never so long as to cause my mail database to swell to gargantuan >sizes. > >I think the largest my Emailer database ever got was around 300 MB, >usually it was more in the 180 MB size range. > >-chris ><www.mythtech.net> > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
