understandable if you do not want to wade 2x through spam. easiest solution then - make a backup every day and if you can a copy to an external drive. then, like 1x a month, you just burn all important data to a CDR. you anyhow should have means of backing up your computer, you REALLY don't want to loose important stuff in that case that your drive dies or something like that. rare, but it DOES happen. i make a daily copy of my database (sheduled via ical and applescript) plus a daily 'backup' copy to an external firewire drive (via synch!) and when i'm not too lazy and find the time, i clean up my drive and burn stuff to CDR (sooo cheap) or DVD (cheap now too) and have so my backups. if the house burns down, oh well. but else, i don't worry too much (used to do also weekly backup to tape, but became too clunky at this point for me, so I dropped that).
just trying to point out that some kind of backup, regularly, would probably be the best - and then you do not need to go through any hoops of changing filters. or forwarding etc etc... - also, make SURE you work always on copies when you upgrade - ANY - software. it is also a good idea to backup drives before upgrading operating system (my opinion and experience). as frustrating the momentary situation right now seems to you, i am sure that some improved environment can be created. ---marlyse
