Friday, May 30, 2003, 3:47:06 AM, Roelof Otten wrote: RO> Hallo lucy823,
RO> On Fri, 30 May 2003 01:16:36 +0200GMT (30-5-03, 1:16 +0200, where I RO> live), you wrote: lid>> I have about 13000 Emails in 5 Accounts. Recently The Bat is lid>> getting very slow. Very slow when klicking a folder, it takes lid>> many seconds till the messages appear. And it takes many seconds lid>> switching from one message to the other. RO> Will TB never delete messages from the messages.tbb? Yes, it can do RO> that, but that's called 'compressing', you'll see an option 'compress' RO> in the folder menu. This means that TB will rewrite both your .tbb and RO> .tbi files and what's deleted is lost 'forever and ever'. You can also RO> compress folders automatically on closing TB. Since version 1.60 you RO> can set this for all folders in the account settings. And in the RO> folder properties you can do this per folder (compress on exit). The ``problem'' is that this specific set of features leads to bigger problems. Once I start up the bat, I don't exit because it takes too long to count the messages in each folder during startup. Without exiting, the nice action-on-exit is never called, which ends with me running purge/compress all folders whenever I get a chance. To my mind, two options should exist. First, a per folder option to be included in the count or not. I have old emails that I dig through frequently, but the contents aren't changed so I don't really care how many messages there are. Second, lazy counting. Do the count during idle periods, and once on-demand when a folder is entered. During the idle periods (when minimized to the systray, etc), the first level folders and shared folders should be counted first. Then opened subfolders, the rest of the subfolders, etc. Make the numbers light blue or pink to signify a partial count, then change it to bold black when all the folders have been counted. WL RO> TB has also a 'purge'option. In the folder properties you can setup a RO> maximum number of messages or a maximum age for the messages in that RO> folder. That's called purging. Purging is the same as deleting, the RO> message is flagged as deleted, until you compress the folder. Purging RO> can be done automatically and manually (from the folder menu) RO> Note that moving a folder (manual or by filter) will create the RO> message in the new folder and mark it as deleted in the source folder. RO> Now you'll see why it is important to compress your folders, RO> especially those that are seeing lots of messages being deleted or RO> moved. (Your inbox is an example of them.) ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
