12.04 is the worst yet

[Basil Chupin]

On 16/05/12 21:15, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> 2012/5/16 Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>:

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>> I have e-mails going back 7 years; I delete messages every day (they go into
>> Trash) and I have never, ever, ever, had a corruption of the mail folders.
>> NEVER!
> Lucky you. That has not been my experience. And you have been using
> Thunderbird for all these 7 years or you have migrated to it recently?

I have been using Thunderbird when it first started of as Netscape. Now, 
that's a very long time ago.

In 2001 I started to use XP and had Thunderbird at that time. A year 
later I started to use Linux and all I had to do was to simply copy the 
Thunderbird directory over to Linux (S.u.S.E. now called openSUSE) and 
carried on without any problems.

Then some 7 years ago I had a bad crash, losing 2 HDDs which not only 
contained Linux but also the backups on the second HDD. I had to replace 
the HDDs and therefore had to start from scratch with respect to 
Thunderbird mail and Firefox settings.

I have been using the same Thunderbird mail directory since that time 
and in various upgrades of the Linux system and replacements of HDDs.

And in all this time - starting way back in 2001 - I have never, ever, 
lost a message nor had a corruption of the mail folders.


>> After deleting the messages I Compact the folders. And every month I go to
>> the Trash folder and ARCHIVE the previous month's deleted messages (the
>> archiving is done by Thunderbird itself which is a new feature in the latest
>> versions of TB).
>>
>> And with all of this being done, there have never been any corruptions.
>>
> I see, now I understand.

No, I don't think that you do - nor want to for that matter. Let me 
explain once again....


>   But I surely don't want to compact each one
> of the folders I use to store messages from each list that I subscribe
> to every day. If you are willing to do this work on a daily basis,

As I read the posts in the various folders I delete the most irrelevant 
(from my perspective) posts. These deletes go into a folder called TRASH.

At the end of the day, before going to bed, I - alas and alack! - have 
to spend time and effort to do 4 mouse-clicks to have all the folders 
compacted (for the deleted messages).

The compacting  takes about 2 seconds on a bad day - or less on a good 
day. (Mind you, when I was using a 32-bit system the compacting took ~10 
seconds on a 'bad day'.)

Once a month I go to the TRASH folder and select the deleted messages 
received in the previous month and these are then archived by 
Thunderbird and go into the ARCHIVES folder which is sub-divided into 
MONTHly folders (this can be set to be weekly or yearly sub-folders if 
one chose to do so). The actual archiving takes about 4 or 5 seconds - 
but selecting what I want to archive takes a bit longer of course.

And with all this deleting-compacting-archiving I have not lost a single 
message.


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BC

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