Hello all, Monday, July 6, 2009, Carsten Guthardt-Schulz wrote: > Probably others experience this too, is there maybe a way around it:
> After using TB for quite a while, the TBB-Files of my main folders (e.g. > INBOX) become extremely fragmented. The Windows defragmentation tool > shows that they consist of several thousand fragments. Windows may not > even be able to defragment them correctly (depending on the partition), > and even if it does, it will leave thousands of small fragments of free > space on the disc, so that the next big file you copy to that partition > will be split in many many fragments again. I do not understand, what has TB with filesystem fragmentation? are there TB files somehow special, so defragment tool can not maintain them like other files? > The reason, of course, is that TB keeps each folder in a file, which > gets a little bigger for every new message in the folder. What happens > after a while is that TB becomes slow: When I change the folder, I often > have to wait some seconds for the message list to appear. what You see in message list is index file (messages.tbn), not msgbase (stored in messages.tbb). When You select message, TB loads it from msgbase, but displayed data are from index file only. > Can anything be done about this? Would it be possible, for example, to > not enlarge the TBB file for every single new message, but for, say, > steps of 100 MB? Once these 100 MB get filled with messages, the file > would be enlarged by another 100 MB. This way there would only be one new > fragment for every 100 MB, not for every message. am I the one, who think, this is worse solution? ;-) are you compacting (compressing) folders? mainly inbox is needed often, because every incoming message is stored in it, even message is immediately moved to other folder by filter or plugin. -- Bye Marek Mikus Czech support of The Bat! http://www.thebat.cz Using the best The Bat! 4.2.7.1 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 with MyMacros,XMP,AnotherMacros, AntispamSniper v 3.2.1.1 Notebook Toshiba, Core2 Duo 1.83 GHz, 4 GB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.2.7.1 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
