When I've done this, my records are already sorted by "Date Index", and I've never had to move down to it before tapping ENTER for the look up. Are you saying that if you simply hit ENTER at the selection list, your records were sorted by another field?
Thanks, Maria >----- Original Message ----- >From: "laura wolk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Sent: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:24:40 -0500 (EST) >Subject: re: [Braillenote] ghost email in keysoft 6.1 >Hi Sam and others: >I will attempt to give you steps as to how to clean out these email. In doing >so, you will be able to see which type of ghost email I am referring to. >1. From the main menu, press a to enter the address list. Press s to enter >the keylist set up options, and s yet again to select a keylist file. >2. Press backspace, because the default drive given is keylist. Pressing >backspace will allow you to choose a different drive. Choose keymail, and >choose the email folders.cdb file. >3. You will now be returned to the keylist setup menu, so press space with e >(escape) to exit back to the main keylist menu. Press l to look up an >"address". You will be told to "please wait" as the databases change. This >process can take anywhere from 1 to 15 minutes, in my experience, depending on >how large your database currently is. Do not turn off your unit, do not reset >your unit, do not do anything to your until until the process has completed >itself. >4. You will now be placed on the "selection list" for an email message, which >resembles the "selection list" for an address, except that instead of >displaying first name, last name, etc, you ine presented with "to, from, >subject", etc. >5. Navigate to the date index field, which is the ninth field, and press >enter. After a few seconds, you will be placed at the top of the database >selection list by date index, so you will see something like Thursday, >December 23, 2004. Press space with dots 4,5,6 (read with b) to go to the >very bottom of your database. You will now notice that the date index field >is now blank. These, my fellow friends, are the mysterious ghost email. To >see what I mean, navigate to the "body" field of this message, and press >enter. You will either see ?----comoriginal message----" followed by the >contents of a message that, most likely, you've deleted long ago. >6. You can now navigate back to the blank date index field and delete these >messages by pressing backspace with dots 2,3,5,6 (control with 8, possibly) >and confirming with yes. As long as the date index field is blank, you can >rest assure that these are these silly accumulating ghost email. >Note: when you return to keymail and attempt to write a message or read from >any folders, including the inbox, you will again be presented with "please >wait", followed by another possibly substantial waiting period. Again, do not >press reset or turn the unit off while this process is occurring. I would >also recommend that you free database space, just to see how much space you've >gained by cleaning all of these out. >I hope this has helped you all some. I highly recommend doing this, as you >can fee up quite a substantial amount of space.
