Jud, or someone: In an exchange with Christian Brady, we've been talking about the fact that deleting a large (1 MB) attachment from a message, while retaining the message, appears not to change the size of the message reported by Entourage, even after a rebuild. Is this a bug?
On or near 3/27/02 6:00 AM, Christian M. M. Brady at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > On 3/26/02 11:33 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On or near 3/26/02 3:59 PM, Christian M. M. Brady at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> observed: >> >>> Allen, >>> >>> With this script, it removes the attachment, but the size of the message >>> still >>> says, eg., 1MB. Is that just until I compact the DB? >>> Cb >>> cbrady @ tulane.edu >> >> I don't know the final answer to your question; I'd ask it to the general >> list. I seem to recall it came up before, and that the message size simply >> isn't updated, although the space is actually freed up. But I'm not sure of >> that. I rather imagine it would be updated if you rebuilt. > > Well the size still says that it is 1MB of 54k, etc. but after a rebuild I > recovered 200 MB so something is gone! ;-) Is that worth reporting, do you > think? > > Cb > cbrady @ tulane.edu -- Allen Watson, Portland, OR -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> Teach only love, for that is what you are. (A Course in Miracles) -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
