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How to extend TheBat! folder capacity?
 
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I see when the Outbox or Trash folders get filled up, a pop-up box states that these folders are "reaching 2Gb capacity" and instruct to empty the folders and compress.

Is there a setting to expand this 2gb capacity limit?
 
 
 
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This is a Windows file system limit. Microsoft is the only company that can fix.

Also do you really wish to make a file so large? Hope you have a good backup in case of problems.
 
 
 
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there is no Windows file system limit of 2GB, at least in recent versions of Windows. If I correctly remember, 2GB is the file size limit for the ancient FAT-16 filesystem, and it's 4GB for FAT-32. For NTFS, there are no [practical]limits.
So 2 GB is a limitation of theBat, maybe that's fixed in v.4. Anyway, it's a really bad idea to have message bases that big. Keeping old stuff in separate folders has tons of advantages.

In your case, I guess you haven't purged deleted messages for a long time. When you delete a message in theBat, it isn't really deleted from the message base - the message just becomes invisible, nothing more - it still occupies the same space.
Right-click a folder a select 'Compress' to have deleted messages really removed.  
 
 
 
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currently index file in The Bat! allows 2GB msgbases only. In 4.1, new index file is promised, new format will allow bigger msgbases, Labels and other new features.
 
 
 
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So how can we keep the size down below 2GB apart from compressing and purging? I really want to keep all my e-mail messages as a permanent archive, available all the time. Any ideas?
Edited: Michael S - 10 June 2008 19:05:17
 
 
 
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Michael,

Individual folders have to less than 2 GB, there's no problem whatsoever to divide your messages over more folders.
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So how can we keep the size down below 2GB apart from compressing and purging? I really want to keep all my e-mail messages as a permanent archive, available all the time. Any ideas?

Why not create archive folders?

Create sub-folders based on date(s). Then create a filter to automatically archive messages into the appropriate folder(s). As folder(s) fill up, create new sub-folders and adjust the filter as needed.
 
 
 
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