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
