On 2 Jan 2019, at 0:54, Bill Cole wrote:
EagleFiler or any other external archival tool it certainly a
reasonable tactic. Anything that puts scores of thousands of files in
a single directory (as the 52363 files in "Files" shown) has some risk
of making the sorts of mistake in handling very large directories that
have plagued software practically forever, however an archive &
indexing tool that consciously and intentionally builds such a thing
is probably better at handling it than an IMAP client which just
happens to create it as a side effect of mimicking how users handle
messages.
I had enough performance problems with too-large folders that I wrote a
Python
script to split them by date, as subfolders of a new parent folder :
topic, topic-2017,
topic-2016, etc.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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