I have been amazed at the speed of this program, even though others do seem to have trouble with it. I have 10,484 messages in the database, and to be fair I only archive periodically, but when I do it seems lightning-fast. Searches are also extremely quick and convenient. The frequent updates are welcome in their bug-quashing but I sure wish there was an auto-update feature - I don't wnat to spend all my time updating. That said it IS a matter of drag-copying without any sort of manual intervention needed for the underlying database.