>I find this to be something of a problem, because I want to do regular
>backups, but I *don't* want to regularly shut down PM -- due to the
>clearing of the Recent Mail Window. (My person soapbox that one, I know,
>but it's a substantial problem for me).
>
>I have considered simply preventing any receive or send operations (and
>not performing any other actions in PM) for the duration of a backup,
>but leaving PM running... but I'm nervous about doing so on account of
>the best-practice advice noted above.
>
>What do other list members think about this? Would I be likely to f**k
>up my database doing backups this way? (Backups are made to external
>drive using SuperDuper, btw).
I thought I read somewhere in its docs that SuperDuper will simply skip
a file if it's active.
Not that I don't close down all my apps before running it. :)
And I don't see the problem with the RMW retaining unread mail between
program restarts. Maybe we should have a Not-So-Recent-But-Still-Unread
Mail Window? ("SNRBSUMW"... someone call the acronym police...)
Chris
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