2 Aug
2014
2 Aug
'14
7:52 a.m.
On 01/08/14 10:34 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
On 07/31/2014 03:25 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> I've had TBird folders over 300MB work fine.
Mine run to gigabytes.
I don't think it's the overall size as such, but the number of messages
- switching to my classiccmp folder takes ~10 seconds of unresponsive UI
I have 25,000 in mine and it switches instantly.
I'm on OS X, PowerPC.
--Toby
(unlike other folders with far fewer messages in
them), and bringing up
a message for display takes a few seconds, too.
And the msf file is just
an index that gets rebuilt when you look in the folder with TBird. You
can
nuke it, but it will come back.
Thanks, at least I know I don't need to worry about preserving it.
You could also split it out into folders by
decades....
I'm not sure if there's a burden placed on tbird for all folders that it
knows about, though - i.e. if more system resources are consumed by
folders that the user might not even look at. Having the classiccmp
archive 'offline' to tbird might be beneficial; it's very rare that I
want to refer back to something, but it does happen, so I want to make
sure I have my own archive if there isn't a maintained one online.
cheers
Jules