Hello Tom,
On Saturday, June 25, 2022, you wrote:
T> Saturday, June 25, 2022, 6:33:05 PM, you wrote:
>> On Saturday, June 25, 2022, 10:25:45, Chris Wilson wrote:
>>> Watching with interest 40 + GB of mail and attachments here, which stored
>>> in the current database is ridiculous
>> 152 GB here…
T> So, you guys never felt the need for this ? With 152 gb I would expect TB
to be quite slow to open and having proper backups to be a pain?
I am getting old and forgetful. It suddenly occurred to me that I had once
asked a similar question here, and as I have kept all messages from starting to
use TB! I found it for you. See below, Thomas Fernandez answered and although
based on an earlier TB! version his response should still be applicable, I
would have thought.
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On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:20:04 +0100 GMT (27-Apr-19, 20:50 +0700 GMT),
Chris Wilson wrote:
> I am happily running a legacy version of TB! but my message base is
> now huge. I was wondering if it is possible to somehow split the
> message base based on date so I keep say the last two year's messages
> in TB!' directory structure, and store older stuff elsewhere, perhaps
> on tape or DVD? Thanks
What I do is I "archive" old messages to other folders. For example, I
name a subfolder "2016" and then move all messages from that year into
that subfolder. This keep each folder with a manageable size. (Make
sure you compact the folders in which the messages were stored
previously.)
If you want to store those messages somewhere else, you create a dummy
account called "Archive". Under Account / Properties / Files &
Directories, you to an external drive or a drive in the cloud (nobody
uses tape or DVD any more). This way, you don't need to keep them on
your computer's hard disk.
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Cheers,
Thomas.
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