At 7:11 PM -0700 3/19/2011, Judith Berkowitz wrote:
I use the Mac Mail Client Version 2.1.3
on my Late 2005 12" iBook
OS X 10.4.11
1.33 GHz
1 GB Ram
Right around now each year I make two new folders "On My Mac," this
year they're called "2010 Inbox" and "2010 Sent." I then manually
slide about 200 posts at a time from the previous year from the
current Inbox and Sent mail into these respective folders. If I
highlight more, the process usually chokes.
If you first rebuild Mail's envelope index does it then let you
manipulate bigger chunks? That index is a database that has to be
updated every time you move a message; probably gets pretty grody
when you do so many mass moves.
Surely there is a simpler, and perhaps automated, way to get all the
old mail out of the current Inbox, yet still keep it around!
Well, the official solution would be a bigger HD and a faster Mac and
the newer version of Mail. That way when it's clogged with too many
mail messages you won't notice because it's fast enough to hide the
machinations.
(Someone that knows Apple Mail better than I needs to chime in with
something more viable) :)
I use Eudora. Pretty much do the same as you - archiving things each
year. With Eudora I can just create a new set of mailboxes and move
the old ones into a sub-folder. Then, Eudora only notices them when
I do a search that explicitly selects one.
FWIW,
- Dan.
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