Re[2]: Slimming Down the database / Archiving
Hello Tom, On Sunday, July 3, 2022, you wrote: T> Hi Chris, T> I finally got around to doing this and I am happy to report a successful outcome. T> All these older messages are now combined in subfolders under Archive XXX and T> having this Account stored on a separate drive, does indeed reduce the size used for T> my main OS and any twice-weekly backups. The size for the TBK complete backup file has reduced from 16.2 gb to 5.8 gb. T> The benefit of the password protection of the account compared to my original idea of just T> moving the actual folders somewhere else is that I can now still open the archive easily and T> check on something if necessary. Based on my experience that the minute you clear out something, you will need it, T> this is quite a nice benefit. The only drawback I found was that moving messages was a bit more involved than T> using cut/paste of some folders. T> Thanks Chris and Thomas for the suggestion. T> Cheers T> Tom Glad my finding Thomas' message was useful to you. What would be a highly useful feature to me would be to have a function where you command TB to make a new database mimicking the current ones structure, but with all folders showing an Archive and pre date identifier. So one would select an account, select a cut off month and year and tell it to archive, the result being a separate database created on a destination medium of user choice, containing only messages created or received pre whatever month and year. The database remaining within TB would then only contain messages created or received after the cut off date desired. -- Chris Wilson "Using The Bat! v10.0.10 on Windows 7 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1" -- Current version is 9.1.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Slimming Down the database / Archiving
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. @@@ 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. -- Cheers, Thomas. @ -- Chris Wilson "Using The Bat! v10.0.10 on Windows 7 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1" -- Current version is 9.1.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Slimming Down the database / Archiving
Hello Jernej, On Saturday, June 25, 2022, you wrote: JS> 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 JS> 152 GB here… That's an amazing amount of mail, people must either really love you or really hate you :) -- Chris Wilson "Using The Bat! v10.0.10 on Windows 7 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1" -- Current version is 9.1.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
