Hello Tom,
On Sunday, July 3, 2022, you wrote: T> Hi Chris, T> I finally got around to doing this and I am happy to report a successful outcome. T> All these older messages are now combined in subfolders under Archive XXX and T> having this Account stored on a separate drive, does indeed reduce the size used for T> my main OS and any twice-weekly backups. The size for the TBK complete backup file has reduced from 16.2 gb to 5.8 gb. T> The benefit of the password protection of the account compared to my original idea of just T> moving the actual folders somewhere else is that I can now still open the archive easily and T> check on something if necessary. Based on my experience that the minute you clear out something, you will need it, T> this is quite a nice benefit. The only drawback I found was that moving messages was a bit more involved than T> using cut/paste of some folders. T> Thanks Chris and Thomas for the suggestion. T> Cheers T> Tom Glad my finding Thomas' message was useful to you. What would be a highly useful feature to me would be to have a function where you command TB to make a new database mimicking the current ones structure, but with all folders showing an Archive and pre date identifier. So one would select an account, select a cut off month and year and tell it to archive, the result being a separate database created on a destination medium of user choice, containing only messages created or received pre whatever month and year. The database remaining within TB would then only contain messages created or received after the cut off date desired. -- 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