Can anyone relay what the Mail.app uses for a directory structure when including Gmail's "All Mail" folder?
I don't actually use Mail.app right now, I'm one of those that is satisfied with Gmail's web app. I do, however, backup my account's "All Mail" using offlineimap [1]. This has lead to a maildir folder containing around 60,000 items, and I recently determined that this is really having an impact on Time Machine. TM uses fseventsd to determine which files to back up, but that only identifies the parent folder of changed items. TM then scans the entire contents of that folder to find the actual changed files. With large directories, this takes a really long time. In my case, backups were sometimes taking over an hour. Excluding my offlineimap backups has gotten this time down to a very reasonable ~10 minutes. So, I'm wondering if Apple works around this with Mail by segmenting large folders. If so, it may be worth it for me to just start using Mail.app again. Thanks for any tips. [1]: http://offlineimap.org/ -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
