From: mike 

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:14:24 -0500, "Geo"  wrote:

>"Rich"  wrote in message news:459164df$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>   If you just want to archive messages, with Windows Mail and Windows
>Live Mail Desktop you can just archive the EML and NWS files.  One of the
>changes from OE is to persist the messages as individual files instead of
>store the message bodies in a database.  I believe this was easier for
>Windows Desktop Search.<<
>
>heh, so now you can have millions of tiny 1k files to mess up your ntfs?

  :)

With one large message database file, every time you received a new
message, Windows Desktop Search had to re-index the entire multi-gigabyte
file.  With millions of tiny little message files, Windows Desktop Search
now only has to index the files that contain the new message(s).

 /m

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