Hi Sherry: Freeing the database space simply compacts the database into the smallest possible package it can be. It doesn't touch any of your saved email, it just gets rid of garbage left over from moving or deleting email.
Yes,you can delete email from the preexisting folders. When you attempt to delete an email from a folder you created, such as "work", you will be prompted "delete from this folder or move to trash?" If you press F, the email will only be deleted from that folder, but left in either the sent (if you sent it) or received (if you received it) folders. This is actually a very good work-around, if you only want to have to worry about a sent and received folder. The BN will not allow you to move an email message directly from the inbox to either of these folders. But, if you move the email to an self-created folder and then delete it from that folder, it will still remain in either the sent or received folder. If, however, you press T from the prompt "delete from folder or move to trash?" the email will be deleted both from the self-created folder as well as any other self-created folder you have made, as well as the sent or received folder, and the all folder. PHEW!!! The reasoning behind this is this: The one and true copy of the email message is stored in either sent or received, and all other folders the email is copied or moved to simply trigger the email in the original folder to be called up. What I mean is this: If you have an email message sent to you from a friend, and you move it to a folder called "friend", you really only have one copy of that email, and that is stored in the received folder. The copy in friend is simply a... eeek I don't really know how to explain this, but it is just an image of the message that, if you were to click on it, would bring up the original message. I guess you could equate it to a shortcut in the windows environment. OK so sorry that took about three hours to read. I hope it was understandable and a tad helpful. Lol. Later, Laura ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry Gomes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:08 AM Subject: RE: [Braillenote] the e-mail system Yep. That's why I hadn't ever tried using it for email before. I get a lot of mail everyday. But what does freeing the database do? What exactly does it eliminate? It doesn't do anything to saved emails in folders, does it? And can email be deleted from the system folders, like sent, received and all? I hadn't checked that out yet, but the thought just came to me. I always delete my sent items regularly on the PC and the deleted items are automatically deleted when I close outlook. Sherry
