powermail-discuss Digest #2736 - Saturday, November 17, 2007
Re: Time Machine and Powermail
by "listes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
problem with PM search function
by "Ken Pope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Did I make a huge mistake here?
by "John Maylone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Did I make a huge mistake here?
by "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: problem with PM search function
by "Carl Darby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Time Machine and Powermail
From: "listes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:52:08 +0100
PowerMail Engineering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As with all other backup softwares, making a backup of PowerMail's
> database while PowerMail is open (especially with a scheduled
> connection) can probably produce a corrupted backup. Additionally, your
> entire mail database will be backed up every hour (assuming you have
> received at least one message since the previous backup), so if it is
> large, it will be slow and use a lot of space on your backup drive, as
> Time Machine will keep many versions of the entire database. Also,
> PowerMail's own .old backup (done when you compact your database) as
> well as the spotlight cache (if spotlight indexing is enabled) are
> probably not worth to backup.
In spite of all of this, I can second the earlier poster in that my
TimeMachine backups are very fast (in the order of a dozen seconds too),
while I don't even quit PM, didn't exclude the .old database, and
moreover perform them over Airport onto a vulgar NAS server.
Jérôme, I checked the daily volume increase on the server, and I feel
it's not getting this larger every day (now, my PM database is "only"
91M, so maybe it's duplicated without me seeing it in fact. But after a
week, my archive looks almost the same size in Gb...)
Hervé
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Subject: problem with PM search function
From: "Ken Pope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:48:13 -0500
I'm using PM 5.5.3 with Tiger (10.4.11) on a MacBook Pro (2.16 GHz Intel
Core 2 Duo; 2 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM). Although previously it worked
fine, for the last half year or so I have not been able to make the PM
search function work. I have tried discarding PM and re-installing a new
copy. I've tried the "update search index" and "compact search
index." (I've also compacted the message database countless times.)
Under Preferences I have checked "automatically index messages in
background" and "enable external indexing by Spotlight and Foxtrot
Personal Search. I have plenty of room on my hard drive (25 GB free).
I've repaired permissions many times.
The messages are in the database and readable. But most of them do not
show up in a search. I run a search for all messages in a folder, for
example, that have the word "testimony" in the subject line, and the
search function tells me there are none. But a message with the word
"testimony" in the subject line from last February is there in the
folder. Though many messages from the past several years are in some of
the folder, even a search that would bring up virtually all messages in
the folder (i.e., search for "the" in the body) will not show any
messages from previous years.
My message database is currently 226 MB.
Over the past half year I've tried all sorts of experiments but cannot
seem to solve the problem or figure out what's wrong.
I'd appreciate any help in diagnosing and fixing this problem.
Thanks for your help.
Ken
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Subject: Re: Did I make a huge mistake here?
From: "John Maylone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:05:11 -0800
Let me ask a different question here that may help me sort out my mess:
What is the DEFAULT location and name of the PM 5.5 message database?
I don't recall ever changing those things from the defaults.
Regards,
John
On Nov 14, 2007, at 8:22 PM, T.L. Miller wrote:
> On 11/14/07, at 9:38 PM, Richard Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>> Your most recent database should be in your USER folder NOT the
>> Applications folder.
>
> My most recent DB is in my Applications folder. I do have some PM
> files,
> including a Message DB, in my User folder, but they are 2 1/2 years
> ago
> -- probably for 5.2.
>
>
> Tom Miller
> ..................................................
> "The only time we see the middle of the road is as
> we run from side to side." R.O.Clark
> ...................................................
>
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Subject: Re: Did I make a huge mistake here?
From: "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:47:02 -0500
Hi John,
>Let me ask a different question here that may help me sort out my mess:
>
>What is the DEFAULT location and name of the PM 5.5 message database?
>I don't recall ever changing those things from the defaults.
Here is the path on my computer (user=jpistrang). The '\' indicates a
space in the file name.
/Users/jpistrang/Mail/PowerMail\ Files/Message\ Database
Jim
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Subject: Re: problem with PM search function
From: "Carl Darby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:57:32 +0000
I tried deleting ALL .old files from Powermail File folder and spotlight
cache. Seemed to work. Don't ask me why!!! `````did you try searching
with wildcards like eg testim* or *timon* etc.
Hope it works - did for me but, as said, probably more luck than
judgement!!!!!
Carl
On Friday, November 16, 2007 Ken Pope wrote:
>I'm using PM 5.5.3 with Tiger (10.4.11) on a MacBook Pro (2.16 GHz Intel
>Core 2 Duo; 2 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM). Although previously it worked
>fine, for the last half year or so I have not been able to make the PM
>search function work. I have tried discarding PM and re-installing a new
>copy. I've tried the "update search index" and "compact search
>index." (I've also compacted the message database countless times.)
>Under Preferences I have checked "automatically index messages in
>background" and "enable external indexing by Spotlight and Foxtrot
>Personal Search. I have plenty of room on my hard drive (25 GB free).
>I've repaired permissions many times.
>
>The messages are in the database and readable. But most of them do not
>show up in a search. I run a search for all messages in a folder, for
>example, that have the word "testimony" in the subject line, and the
>search function tells me there are none. But a message with the word
>"testimony" in the subject line from last February is there in the
>folder. Though many messages from the past several years are in some of
>the folder, even a search that would bring up virtually all messages in
>the folder (i.e., search for "the" in the body) will not show any
>messages from previous years.
>
>My message database is currently 226 MB.
>
>Over the past half year I've tried all sorts of experiments but cannot
>seem to solve the problem or figure out what's wrong.
>
>I'd appreciate any help in diagnosing and fixing this problem.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Ken
>
>
>
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