http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in How to extend TheBat! folder capacity? of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:17:25 +0300 How to extend TheBat! folder capacity? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.

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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?
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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.
11 June 2008 16:17:25, rdean61.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23943/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23943/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:17:25 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client How to extend TheBat! folder capacity? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Michael,

Individual folders have to less than 2 GB, there's no problem whatsoever to divide your messages over more folders.
11 June 2008 00:43:34, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23926/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23926/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:43:34 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client How to extend TheBat! folder capacity? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
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?
10 June 2008 19:04:11, Michael S.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23920/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23920/ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:04:11 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client How to extend TheBat! folder capacity? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
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.
11 April 2008 18:05:05, Marek Mikus.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23191/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23191/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:05:05 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client How to extend TheBat! folder capacity? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
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.  
11 April 2008 00:02:28, bigg one.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23172/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23172/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:02:28 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client How to extend TheBat! folder capacity? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
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.
10 April 2008 19:38:22, Arnold DeRoy.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23165/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23165/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:38:22 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client How to extend TheBat! folder capacity? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
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?
10 April 2008 19:17:34, Alex.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23164/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic6067/message23164/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:17:34 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client