Sherman,
Clearly a 2 hour search is a problem.
Equally clearly, an archiving scheme suggestion was not quite the point that
Eric was making.
Gary
Sherman Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, on 3/5/01 10:19 PM:
> On 3/5/01 7:43 PM, Eric Hildum said:
>
>> I just tried a search of the contents of my mail for a message I send several
>> months ago. Currently, I have about 5000 messages without attachments stored,
>> and was searching for a single, 18 letter (English) word. The search took
>> almost 2 hours to complete on a 500MHz system! That is incredibly bad what
>> is the problem? Isn¹t searching done with a DFA?
>
> Don't take this the wrong way, but...
>
> Why don't you archive your email to a database? There are some good
> solutions for this, and it gives two advantages: (1) better/faster
> searching, and (perhaps more important), (2) it keeps your Entourage db
> lean.
>
> -- Sherman
>
>
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