flyguy wrote:
Phillip Jones wrote:
flyguy wrote:
My wife has some folders with 5000-7000 messages, which take a long time
to compact, even though it's a dual core machine. Is there any way to
set a time for SM to do the compacting, so it doesn't block normal use
of the email?
Turn off auto Compacting Preferences (settings) Mail & news > Network/
Storage.
uncheck compact files when ....K can be saved.
then do the compacting manually. Since I did so I stopped a whole lot of
issues.
I just checked, and that's the way it is set up, and I do manually
compact hers whenever I notice mine being compacted (it's set auto).
Hmmm. I now think she was having another problem that looked similar,
and it got misdiagnosed - recently, our ISP was getting really slow on
some mail accounts when a message of 2 or 3 mb was downloading, so that
was probably it.
I am disappointed I can't set a time, or that SM can't work around
normal email operations when compacting, but it's an infrequent irritant.
Thanks for the suggestion - still the best idea.
Does your wife have all her mail in a single folder or has she broken
the mail up into yearly folder for different mail, e.g. I store all my
past mail in folders under the Local Folders as 2009_Family,
2008_Family, 2009_Work, 2008_Work, etc., etc..
Works for me.
Daniel
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