Marco Piovanelli sent on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:15:38 +0100 >I've been using PowerMail for a more than two years now, >and I've become totally addicted to the FoxTrot search >feature. I use FoxTrot to instantly find interesting threads >in a handful of technical mailing lists that I don't have >the time to read day to day, but keep archived for later >reference. One of this lists has accumulated in excess of >38,000 messages. > >Today, for the first time, it looks like I hit some hard >limit, because the following dire warning popped up: > > Your database is near 2 GB > > PowerMail can't handle a message database larger than 2 GB. > You should compact your database, or export old messages > and delete them from your database. > >So far I haven't really deleted any messages except spam, >so I don't think compacting my database will help much >except perhaps put off cleaning it out for a few more days. >It sounds like the moment has come, but I really don't want >to lose the ability to search old messages. > >What are my options? Can I export folders in a format >that FoxTrot Personal Search can index? > >Are there any plans to support databases larger than 2 GB >in a future version of PowerMail? With hard disks getting >larger and cheaper by the day, two gigs look like a pretty >small limit. > > > -- marco One option, which I have used, is to save the existing database under another name (such as "Emails 1998-2005"). Then go to your current database, and delete all of the older stuff. In the saved database, go to Mail... Scheduling and Locations, and be sure to turn off scheduled email retrievals. That way, when you go to the old database to search, it won't retrieve new mail
When you need to search for a message in the older database, just go to File... Database... Switch User Environment. The select the older database. Howard
