I do understand the notion, though, even your hard drive isn't big enough to keep all what you do from all the years past and current on 1 drive. Well, at least not if you in graphics with big images and 3D and animation etc. - So things have to get archived or tossed or new, additional hard drives need to be bought and installed.
Not even Google goes over the 2 gig storage per user... and it heavily advertises as "access ALL your mail in one spot" - with other words, probably most of us are pack rats and even keep stuff around they'll NEVER use again - for example, my archives have harvested messages from tons of list servers with software questions relating to software versions so long gone, I'd have to bring up my 840 AV and system 7 just to be able to load it - but still, I have it in my archives. Cleaning household and archiving is a good thing, the bigger the accumulation, the longer searches take because it constantly has to sift though old stuff and also indexing gets slower the bigger the database. Even memories we categorize into "childhood" etc., so why not pack old email into the memory slot called "archive"? I do a cleanup about 1x a year - it's like spring cleaning and keeps my databases sane. ---marlyse ------------ former message(s) quotes: ------------- >Just FWIW, I access older mail sometimes, albeit frequently. The issue >is that I don't want to have to search here, then there, then the other >place, etc. If I think "email," that's where I want to look, you know?
