I think he meant that making a hard link and copying a small file take about the same time (when storing emails as individual files.) I think the archive folde

I think he meant that making a hard link and copying a small file take about the same time (when storing emails as individual files.) I think the archive folder idea is a workaround for Entourage. If you have one large file that rarely changes, then making a hard link to it would be much faster than copying it.