Luckymonkey

MacFUSE & sshfs. Ok - this allows you to mount up (and view in finder) those file systems which you would otherwise only be able to access via SSH (either via the command line, or via some SCP/SFTP capable client, like Cyberduck or Fugu). Now you can drag/drop files, and interact with those files as if they were on a mounted local network drive, or an external hard disk.

Not only that, but it’s fully accessible though the command line as well, since it’s available through /Volumes/.

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Worked for mine - although the index size reduction isn’t massive (~24mb to ~20Mb), it’s the rebuilding of the databases indexing which makes it a good idea.

http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/03/01/a-faster-way-to-speed-up-mailapp/

It’s a shame that Mac Mail doesn’t do this automatically, since the load isn’t massive (would add a couple of seconds to load time once a week or something), but would save you easily more than that.

What it’s really doing can be explained here :

http://www.sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html

In time inserts and deletes can leave the database file structure fragmented, which slows down disk access to the database contents. The VACUUM command cleans the main database by copying its contents to a temporary database file and reloading the original database file from the copy. This eliminates free pages, aligns table data to be contiguous, and otherwise cleans up the database file structure.

A while ago, I started using Quicksilver (Wikipedia entry), after reading about it on 43 Folders. Now, I don’t know how I ever managed without it.

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