On 9/7/12 4:53 PM, Desiree wrote: > "David E. Ross" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> On 9/7/12 3:39 AM, Ant wrote: >>> Hello again. >>> >>> I noticed my SM v2.12's oldest history entries are from 8/5/2012 7:46 AM >>> PDT and it is currently 9/7/2012 3:39 AM PDT. It has been already 33 >>> days. Shouldn't my SM already deleted three days by now (8/8/2012 as the >>> oldest entries)? Or did something break like from manually copying >>> places.sqlite between computers and using PrefBar's ExpireHistory button >>> (28 instead of 30 days)? I also tried exiting and relaunching SM to see >>> if it would work. Nope. :( >>> >>> Thank you in advance. :) >>> >> >> As I explained to you before, PrefBar's ExpireHistory button is NOT >> automatic. You must select the button EVERY TIME you want to purge old >> history. >> >> I just selected the button with the 30-day default. Then I viewed my >> history ungrouped. The oldest entry was 30 days ago. >> > > > I thought Sea Monkey had followed Fx on history retention. There is no way > to expire History at 30 days, or 60 days, etc anymore. It is great now, like > Fx, history kept for as long (many years) as possible with the length of > kept history now based mostly on the amount of RAM you have. So, when I get > my new computer with 16 or 24GB RAM (haven't decided which) I will never > have to worry about my history expiring.
See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660646#c2> for why expiring history after some user-determined number of days is desirable. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
