Friday, January 11, 2002, 8:39:58 AM, you wrote: [...] >> May I ask you how you usually go about archiving your old messages?
>> I assume you mean to completely remove them from TB! and place them somewhere >> else, e.g., onto removable storage media? >> Does this really improve the performance of TB!? >> How? >> And if so, at what point does this improvement occur? > As far as I can see (with anything from 0 to the current 30,000 messages > in TB!) there is no performance hit, in basic use, as far as I can see, > and no crashing irrespective of the size of the message base. This is a > remarkable achievement, and a rare one for Windows packages (which tend > to progressively collapse as more and more is stuffed into them) :) That's what I thought, too, Alastair. It's one of TB's most appealing features. It opens quickly, etc. So, why all the archiving? >Of course, things like searches, which may have to traverse the >entire folder tree, slow down as the message base gets bigger, but >nothing can be done about that. I see. > I archive to CD-RW each night and to CD-R about every 50,000 messages or > so, but this is solely to keep the message base a manageable size for > myself. What exactly do you archive to CD-RW each night? Every message in every folder? Do you not do a backup? > What I do when I want to clear out TB! is a complete backup (Tools | > Backup) to CD-R then delete the contents of each folder by hand*. If I were to do that, could I (if I ever needed to) "restore" multiple generations of a particular archive? Say, restore Year 1 plus Year 2, to get an active file that included both Year 1 *and* Year 2? > Alastair > * a useful facility would allow you to delete all messages _but_ keep > the folder tree intact. > This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For >more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around >the globe, visit > http://www.messagelabs.com One more question: Is the above notice automatically affixed by your virus-scanning software, or is it a cookie? Thanks! -- Joe Finocchiaro mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
