Simply, THANK YOU! Parish wrote:
> On 29/08/2002 15:56 Ron reared up on his hind legs and bellowed: > >> In my file directory in windows explorer, I have tow files on is an >> .msf extension and the other simply states 'file'. This file carries >> all my old deleted (I thought I deleted)emails. I tried renaming, >> replacing, etc. but these files seem to be integrated with the .msf >> files. >> >> Any help? It's eating up space on my hard drive. (No - "get a bigger >> hard drive" comments please). >> > > The .msf files are the indexes that Mozilla creates for each mail/news > folder. > > When you delete a mail it disappears in the Inbox or wherever and > appears in Trash. However, as you have found, it still exists in the > original folder - it just doesn't get displayed (the X-Mozilla-Status > code in the header gets changed which is how Moz knows not to display it). > > To purge a folder to remove the "deleted" e-mails right-click on it and > select Compact This Folder. >
