Author Topic: How do I move the mail database to the sd card?  (Read 9476 times)

uncinogb

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How do I move the mail database to the sd card?
« on: May 26, 2013, 02:16:17 pm »
I have tried several email clients for my HTC Incredible and I found that I really like AM, well done. I have loads of emails that I want to keep on my HTC as I want to be able to consult them even when I am off line, abroad for instance. The space used on gmail is 0.6Gb and I don't want this amount of space to be taken on my internal RAM, but I have plenty of sapce on my SD card. I have already set the storage of all attachemnts to be on the SD card, but how can I move the emails also?
Many thanks for a great app.
Kind regards
Marco

Kostya Vasilyev

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Re: How do I move the mail database to the sd card?
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2013, 03:00:27 am »
Marco,

Message text is stored in internal memory, for a variety of reasons.

Regarding the 0.6 GB, I guess that's the amount reported by Gmail web site?

My app only syncs recent messages, so it won't be trying to download all those 600 megabytes. The default is to sync 25 most recent messages per folders, this is the "messages per page" setting.
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tkalfaoglu

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Re: How do I move the mail database to the sd card?
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2016, 04:51:50 pm »
That's sad; we should have the option to move the database to the SD Card..

Kostya Vasilyev

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Re: How do I move the mail database to the sd card?
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2016, 05:27:15 pm »
I understand, but please also understand that

1) there are technical limitations
2) more technical limitations and
3) yet more technical limitations and

and also

4) I know you feel very strongly about it, but this is not a very frequent request.

I also have a hard time imagining that AquaMail is the *only* app on your phone using storage.
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Biggsy

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Re: How do I move the mail database to the sd card?
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2016, 08:27:28 pm »
I want the feature as well, please.  K-9 Mail can do it, so the difficult technical challenges are possible to overcome.  I would prefer AquaMail for its look, but i want hundreds or thouands of messages synced with as little internal storage used as possible.

You may not get many requests for it because people generally just look for alternatives instead of complaining about things that stop them using the app at all.  I only write messages like this very occasionally myself.  Thank you for thinking about it.

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Re: How do I move the mail database to the sd card?
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2016, 12:03:01 am »
No, sorry, will not do that.

One, phones these days have lots of built-in "large" memory, 16 GB is the minimum it seems. Even if so it's 10 GB usable, that's still plenty, and I just won't believe that AquaMail takes up all that on its own.

Second, microSd storage is going to be less reliable, and I just do not want to deal with more cases of "the database got corrupted, I lost all my messages and accounts" (yes, they happen even with K9 Mail, there is no "magic").
Creating debug logs for diagnostics: https://www.aqua-mail.com/troubleshooting/

The official FAQ: https://www.aqua-mail.com/faq/

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Вопросы и ответы: https://www.aqua-mail.com/ru/faq/