Those are not folders. They're newsgroups. There's nothing in the least
disturbing about newsgroups. They're perfectly ordinary. You must have gone
to look at a couple of newsgroups back in May: they're very easy to get to
in the Microsoft News Server. You wouldn't have to subscribe to a newsgroup
either (if you did it would be listed in the Folders List under the News
Server when its disclosure triangle was opened.) Just browsing in the large
list of news groups that appears when you click on the Microsoft News Server
and double-clicking one would download headers, and clicking on any of the
headers would download the article. No big deal. Either you or someone using
your computer must have done this.
You weren't sent any email messages, nor do you have any invisible folders.
microsoft.test and microsoft.public.mac.office.excel are both newsgroups.
After several months messages are indeed removed form the news server in
general maintenance, so if you didn't click on the actual article
("message") back in May - you'd get that server message about the article no
longer being on the server. It means that all you have on your computer is
the headers - subject, sender, etc. taking up less than 1K of space. This is
hardly doing you any harm. If you did click on the article back then, you'd
have the message itself in your cache and could read it. Or if it's only
been up a shot while, it's still on server and will download when you click
on it. That's how news messages work. Sort of like IMAP, except you don't
pay for your own space on a server, you just connect to it like everyone
else, to get news articles. Some people send lots of news messages and you
happened to hit a day back in May when some particular person sent a lot of
messages. That's nothing to get alarmed about.
For some reason the "Unread Mail" custom view does not exclude news
messages. (If you used it a lot and also read news and wanted to exclude
news messages from view, I could tell you how.)
To remove these messages from your cache, control-click on the Microsoft
News Server and select "Empty Cache" in the contextual menu that appears.
Quit Entourage. I think that when you relaunch they should be gone. If not,
do a database rebuild if this really matters to you. That will remove all
evidence. But they'll probably be gone anyway after you empty the cache. The
messages aren't doing you any harm so here's really no problem leaving them
around. If you want to know how to exclude them from the view, just say so.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
> From: Brent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 10:23:51 -0700
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Invisible folders in E'rage?
>
> I accidentally clicked on the Unread Mail View and was shown several
> thousand emails in two folders I did not know I had and can not find.
>
> The real disturbing part is that there are about 200 emails from one person
> in about a 6 hour period. There did not appear to be any attachment. They
> all are from 1/18/04 over that 6 hour period with several others from
> different individuals, including one from Spain and one spam.
>
> I went to a website of the person's domain. It looks to be a personal page
> and he looks like a fanatic.
>
> The folder name add to the concern, "microsoft.test".
>
> Clicking on any email here brings up the message
> Error, The message cannot e displayed because there was an error receiving
> the message.
> Explanation, The article is no longer on the server. Error 132
>
>
> I also found another invisible folder called
> "microsoft.public.mac.office.excel", which also gives the same error
> message. No I do vaguely remember going to that list looking for a problem
> with excel.
>
> These are from a 15 day period back in May of 2003.
>
> I do not remember looking around. I do not like newslists or chat rooms.
>
> Where are there folders, how do I remove them, and how do I prevent these
> invisible folders from being recreated in the future?
>
> I am currently having some problems with Entourage at the moment. I was
> creating some Custom Views to sort out spam and see which e-ddresses were
> getting the most spam. While deleting the custom views, E'rage unexpectedly
> quit several times. Now even though I have disabled the schedule to send and
> receive every 10 minutes, it does. Also when the icon bounces on the hidden
> Dock it no longer had a envelope on the icon to show new mail. I also do not
> remember the icon bouncing while the E'rage window was open, but in the
> background, which it does not.
>
> Do I need to delete some email and rebuild E'rage?
>
> Brent
>
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