Hello sacksa, On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:56:55 -0600 GMT (30/01/2004, 02:56 +0700 GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, Peter. I have never compressed the message base. I never thought > about it. (Here at the office, compression is done autormatically every > night with Lotus Notes.) There is compression and then there is compression. The TB terminology is not what is usually understood by compression. It is rather a zapping: when messages are deleted in TB, there are not deleted from the database. They are only marked as deleted and not shown in your message list. this is tru for the Inbox too, if you use filters. All messages get downloaded into the Inbox first, then copied into the destiantion folder and marked as deleted in the Inbox, so you won't see them any more. Every ouple of days I go to Folder / Maintenance Center, click "Kill Dupes", Purge" and "Compress". This will makr duplicates as deleted, mark messages older than your settings in the folder properties as deleted, and then go about and actually take them off the message base. I always save a couple fo MB on my harddisk. This doesn't prevent fragmentation, you still have to defrag on OS level (which I do once a month, max). What your Lotus does every night has nothing to do with this (well I don't know whether it defrags but wouldn't think so). > However, does defragmentation accomplish the same thing? Even if > compression is a good thing to do on a regular basis (and how would > I schedule that?), You cannot schedule TB's compression style, but you can instruct TB to do it on exit, as has been mentioned. I don't do that, because it takes several minutes im my case (many large attachments, stored in message base), and sometimes I want to leave the office quickly! ;-) > would that really solve the occasional slowdown problem given that a > cold reboot doesn't compress messages, but it did solve my problem. > At least for a while. Glad you are fine for now. Keep compressing the TB folders, either manually or on exit. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. If you have questions that are too specific, try to be more general. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.03.47 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
