But it serves the purpose since the only mail in trash is from this session, unless he gets 7,000 every time he logs on
Ron
About Re: [PCI] Eudora... old deleted messages coming back to haunt me, at 10:47am -0500 on 2/20/04, Fluxstringer stated:TTTTTTT TTTTTTT TTTTTTTTT
It seems like the Eudora temp trash file contents revert to the inbox after a crash. Will Eudora be remembered in Recent Applications on restart.? If so, then an Applescript in the Startup items folder could tell Eudora to empty trash on reboot. Before the content can go back to the inbox. If a script will work upon a program as it launches
Maybe Apple figures we know how to do this !
Try: Settings --> Miscellaneous--> empty trash on quit?
But Paul, the case we are referring to here is that of the machine crashing while eudora is running. Whne the original poster rebooted his inbox had 7000 messages going back two years. he could not figure out where they came from.
But what is needed is a way to flush the temp trash file in Eudora before reboot.
Since the machine is not " quit " properly the setting you suggest which many of us already use won't do the trick.
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People coming in late on this thread may be getting the wrong idea as usual. The quotes get nisattributed and the original problem gets clouded over.
The lister said he has Eudora set to delete mail from the server as it is downloaded. After a recent crash he got the 7000 messages dating back 2 years.
He didn't know where they came from.. I suggested from experience that he had older Eudora files scattered around and probably one whale of a mail file somewhere. And that Eudora was somehow putting duplicates there. The crash and subsequent reboot scrambled things as they did for me in a past experience. The lister admitted having old versions of Eudora but didn't seem to think that was the problem. I don't know if he purged them or not.
Someone else talked of a function of OS 6 that emptied trash on shutdown. this clouds this praticular thread. Since there was no shutdown. Just a crash.
Then I and others were speculating about how you could empty the trashed files . But where do these go. Can they be accessed by a script when the machine reboots ? Or when Eudora is restarted. It probably depends on the version of Eudora and actually might not be possible at all.
The lister must have a huge hard drive to not miss the space 7000 messages would take up. And I imagine there was a lot of unnoticed time wasted while Eudora passed along duplicate files . (we still haven't figured that one out ) .
Yes ordinarily mail in the trash is from this session. And actually the trash issue was not at the core. The original post was about mail reappearing in the inbox. I wonder how much RAM that took ? The lister then later picked up on the trash issue too . Asking how to empty trash while in Eudora
to be siure it is really gone from the system.
Here is what I wrote earlier this evening;
Andrew wrote;
So how do I make sure the trashed messages are really gone? --
At times when my machine was crash prone I would go into the " Special " menu and select " Empty Trash " . That dumps them so they can't come back when rebooted.
I hope I got all the elements in the right order and this is clearer for everyone now.
But it would still be handy to have a way to keep the trash from reappearing in the inbox after a crash.
-- Adrian
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