Re: Archive of emails
Art Alexion <[email protected]>
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The issue isn't Linux or Windows, or more precisely ext or ntfs. It is ISO 9660, the file system standard for CDs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660 -- Art Alexion On Aug 24, 2010 1:28 PM, "Anne Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Aug 2010 16:08:31 Kevin Krammer wrote: >> On Tuesday, 2010-08-24, Anne Wilson wrote: >> > On Tuesday 24 Aug 2010 12:03:28 Art Alexion wrote: >> > > On Tuesday 24 August 2010 02:48:58 Anne Wilson wrote: >> > > > If you want to archive, merely as an archive, to be rarely or never >> > > > accessed, then the mail can simply be copied to the CD - but that's >> > > > much easier if the folders are in maildir format. >> > > >> > > I'm no expert on this, but aren't maildir file names incompatible with >> > > the ISO format of CDs? If I recall all of this correctly, you would >> > > have to compress/tar the files before writing to CD. Not a good >> > > solution if you need to search or otherwise occasionally access them. >> > >> > No - why would they be? Just to test, I chose a directory, burned it to >> > a CD using K3b, verified the burn, then opened the disk in the file >> > manager. >> >> You most likely have the Rock Ridge extension enabled which allows for Unix >> filenames to be stored. >> >> Maildir filenames can contains characters which are not valid for e.g. >> Windows filenames (i.e. maildir filenames can contain colons, which is the >> drive/path separator on Windows). >> > That sounds likely. Since I use Windows only for two applications that cannot > be used in Linux, I do tend to ignore the needs for that OS. > > Anne > -- > KDE Community Working Group > New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users