Clicking from folder to folder very slow

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Sherry

Mac OSX Panther
My e-mail database is huge, but I need to refer back to e-mails that
are a couple of years old almost daily. When I click from folder to
folder, it can take up to almost 2 full minutes. Rebuilds do nothing
to help this problem. Can anyone help?
 
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matt neuburg

Sherry said:
Mac OSX Panther
My e-mail database is huge, but I need to refer back to e-mails that
are a couple of years old almost daily. When I click from folder to
folder, it can take up to almost 2 full minutes. Rebuilds do nothing
to help this problem. Can anyone help?
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This problem is more or less endemic to any email client. We tend to
treat an email program like a database, and it may even have built-in
database capabilities, but that doesn't make it as fast as a real
database, and, as you say, the program itself may start to bog down as
the database gets large. One approach, therefore, is to export a lot of
old emails, thus making the built-in database lean and mean once again.
You can import the old emails into a real database, or even just leave
them as textfiles on disk and do your searching with BBEdit or similar.
m.
 
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