Ben Kennedy at Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:06:31 -0500 said:
>Sure: network the two Macs, launch PM on the one you wish to use at the >time, and use Switch User Environment to load up the database wherever it >is (locally or remotely). Couldn't be simpler. I wrote about this earlier. Quoting shamelessly from myself, I said: >My solution is to keep the PM >database on my Powerbook, and mount the Powerbook drive on my desktop >computer. I have gigabit ethernet, and PM is nearly as fast on my desktop >as it is on my powerbook (ie, speed is appears to be limited by the PB >disk drive). > >I usually mount the PB disk using the Network item in the Finder (in OS >10.3), which creates at least one problem. The issue is that you can't >delete attachments from within the Powermail App. If you either drag the >attachment item to the trash (in the Dock) or click on it and hit the >delete key, you get an error "folder not found." > >What I do is create a folder on my Powerbook called, eg, "PB Trash", and >keep the icon for that folder open on the desktop of my other machine. >You can drag the attachment icon from a PowerMail window to the "PB >Trash" icon in the Finder, and then later trash all the items in that folder. > >A second issue with this way of doing things, is that the Powerbook will >NOT WARN YOU that it has drives mounted on other machines when you try to >sleep it, or shut it down. And of course, it can't warn you if you just >yank the Ethernet cable out of its back. Doing any of these things >basically disconnects the Powermail database (and any other files you >have open on your other machine) without allowing it to be "closed". This >is a "Bad Thing"®. > >But it works for me. FWIW, my PM database is about 1GB.
