12.04 is the worst yet

[girardhenri]

Le 17/05/2012 07:12, Basil Chupin a écrit :
> 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
I have done few update-manager -d recently and things look like getting 
better with 12.04, no more alerts about my system crashing like before !