Jose de Paula Eufr�sio Junior said: > Hello. > > After 2 years of use I discovered that the "data" dir can be pretty big. > So, I'm thinking in moving my preferences to the MySQL database.
If your reasons are to save space you might want to save yourself the trouble. The pref files don't really take up all that much space relatively. Saving the prefs in a MySQL database probably won't save a lot more space either. However it will be more effecient I believe. > > But I can't lose my actual preferences, and I have some doubts: I > modified a series of plugins that seems to write in the preferences > file. Enabling the MySQL preferences will prevent SquirrelMail from > reading some preferencees that are in the files? Or it can read both and > mix then? If you're using the Squirrelmail get and set pref functions than this should be no problem. The squirrelmail functions determine whether to retrieve the prefs from flat files or SQL based on the config.php settings. > > About the data directory. there's any file there that is "safe" to > delete? Like chunks of old attachments or some garbage? You should seperate your prefs and attachments folders. Anything in the attachments folder older than a day or so can safely be deleted. If you've had them combined for awhile, you should be able to remove anything without a username + extension (not .pref, .sig, .abook, etc). This is probably why the data dir is taking up so much space. Jay -- Jay Lee Network / Systems Administrator Information Technology Dept. Philadelphia Biblical University -- Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. --Calvin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
