Hello Thomas & others on TBUDL following this thread,
Monday, January 08, 2001, you stated regarding the difference
between compressing and purging, as well as the difference between
compressing and compressing:
TF> Purging is marking "old" messages or messages "over the limit" (in
TF> terms of number of messages) as "deleted" in the message base, but
TF> leaving them in the base.
None of those around here, so that's a wasted option in this case.
KS>>> ... Compression within TB has nothing to do with the
KS>>> algorithms used for compression when using a back-up
KS>>> program.
Douglas>> That is because Compression within TB has nothing to do with
Douglas>> compression.
TF> Correct. Compression in TB has nothing to do with compression in
TF> so-called "packers", like WinZip or WinRAR.
Karin says that in that context of databases, compressing has the
meaning I attributed to Moldovian English (Better than my Moldovian,
IAC) .
TF> It is like the PACK command in DBase or Clipper programming, which of
TF> course has nothing to do with the a.m. packers.
TF> Confused yet?
Nada de eso. It's context related, like anything else.
KS>>> Nope. You must have misunderstood the idea behind
KS>>> compression.
Douglas>> You are referring to Moldavian compression. I am referring to
Douglas>> compression compression (i.e Doublespace or similar bogeymen).
TF> I am not sure this meaning of the word "compression" is used only on
TF> Moldavia. But I am sorry to see that you are not confused anymore and
TF> have gotten to the bottom of the meaning. ;-)
What I mean is that TBUDL is TB!'s help file. Language is like that.
Between the whole Bat gang, things take form.
TF> So, and while the Purge command does not actually purge, it is very
TF> important that you set time limits or number-of-message limits in
TF> every folder (and that includes Inbox/Outbox/Sent/Trash!) and
TF> Purge&Compress All Folders (wrongly named Purge All folders)
TF> regularly. Otherwise you will be buying a new HD every half year.
My criteria for deleting isn't time or message number linked. Every
time I buy another hard disk, it's at least double the last one and
costs half as much, so I figure I can hack it.
TF> Oh, you could set "On Exit" for all folders. Then it would go
TF> automatically whenever you close TB. However, since you hardly close
TF> TB, it would bnot help you so much; for me, it took several minutes
TF> (up to 15, actually) upon closing TB every evening in the office, so I
TF> prefer doing it manually and not when I'm in a hurry to leave the
TF> office.
That's understood. It would be good if that could be time linked,
like a virus scan or backup is scheduled, automatically. (I'll bet I
have programs capable of launching a macro that does this w/ TB!, or
I could set up an repeating reminder in a PIM and do it manually now
and then.
Douglas.
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