Thanks Mickey! Worked like a charm 39,000 unread messages is a bit much. Any idea why the option > launch does not bring up the rebuild scenario?
TIA Mike On 2/5/03 4:19 PM, "Mickey Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rebuilding your database won't clear the cache of news messages, which, as > you've noticed, can build up *very* quickly. Unfortunately, at this time, > you can only clear the cache for a news server. This is an all-or-nothing > deal in that it deletes everything on that news server from your computer. > You can re-download most of it depending on the server's retention rate. > > Simply Control-click on the news server, then select "Empty Cache". Click > OK on the prompt to delete all news messages from that server. If you then > want to regain the disk space if you happen to be running low, you can do so > by then doing a database rebuild. It's probably more efficient, however, to > delete all caches you plan on deleting before doing the rebuild. > > On 2/5/03 4:12 PM, "Mike Harvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I followed this thread with great interest. I have 39,000+ unread messages, >> thanks to news groups, that I want to dump. All efforts to delete the junk >> have failed. So in reading the thread I decided to go through the rebuild >> process hoping it would eliminate them. >> >> Anyway starting Entourage with the option key depressed has NO effect and >> the program it launches normally. Any ideas? >> >> Ent. 10.1.1 >> OS 10.2.3 >> >> On 2/4/03 8:12 PM, "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> 20400 is the number of blocks in the database. Each message takes at least 2 >>> blocks. >>> >>> Dan >>> -- 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/>
