On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:26 AM, Allen Watson wrote:
Try using Spotlight typing "kind:email" before your search term. It
limits the search to mail messages. Very fast!
The monolithic database is going to be more of a problem with
Leopard's "Time Machine". Will TM back up the entire database every
time a new mail message arrives? Yuk! That will eat up your backup
disk real fast. I think, to cohabit well with Leopard, Entourage will
have to switch to storing messages as separate files, or else there
will have to be some means by which individual items within the
database can be transferred to a backup copy.
Of course, things like FileMaker databases will suffer the same
problem. Time Machine is slick but it poses some interesting problems
for database-based applications.
Allen,
We've already seen that the Time Machine APIs allow applications to
'individualize' chunks of internal data for backup. Recall both the
iPhoto and AddressBook sections of the demo.
Therefore, the MacBU ought to be able to incorporate such 'chunking'
into Entourage as well.
If you think about it, Time Machine must operate in a similar fashion
to Spotlight (and may even share some code). It watches the state of
the the file system and/or apps with internal support, and collects
the changes over the course of a day, then writes those collected
changes out to disk at the end of the day for that day's snapshot.
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