Re: OT: humungus Tbird file

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

flash wrote:
> Might I suggest a workaround? Archive your huge Tbird file somewhere, on
> CD ROM, for example, regularly (with the date in the file name). Then
> delete some emails from your running version on the pc to get the file
> size down.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I do delete most of my e-mails; just
keep those I may need to reply to (because Tbird will NOT--as far as I
have been able to find out--keep all the info one needs for accurate
threading unless one hits Reply. There's no way to copy it from a
saved post to one that one is writing. But that humongous file is
plain ASCII (because I categorically refuse to enable even HTML, never
mind graphics, in e-mail; asking for malware), so I could open it in
anything; wouldn't need to reimport to Tbird.

 Huge files are bound to get corrupted sooner or later, and if
> all the mails are in one file, you risk losing them all just because a
> file header or eof delimiter or something gets buggered.
Anything I'm going to need permanently (like the posts to this list) I
copy and paste and save elesewhere, so that's not an issue.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx