forgot to mention that there are 1289 of them all with the lable
CA**IDX and they are all now residing in the rubbish bin! Ha.
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:18:02 +0100, wrote:
>Thanks for the reply Gerry, I am not much wiser though, I don't use
>newsgroups. and only occasionally use outlook express. mainly use
>Pocomail as my email client. why all these files suddenly appeared in
>my doc folder on the desktop is a mystery to me. As to those database
>programs, no, ain't using them cos I don't know what they are :>)
>
>On Mon, 09 Apr 2001 17:02:32 -0700, Gerald E. Boyd wrote:
>>At 12:07 AM 4/10/01 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the
>following:
>>
>>>Can someone give me a bit of info please, what the heck are idx
>files?
>>>and what are they for?. All of a sudden I have acquired a very
large
>>>selection of them in my desktop documents folder and they are all in
>>>numerical order. Oh dear Oh dear, what have I done this time? (:>(
>>
>>Outlook Express index files. The *.MBX (mailbox) file is the main
data
>>storage area. All your messages are in there, along with other
>>information,
>>encoded in binary characters. The other file is an *.IDX file, which
>>is an
>>index to the *.MBX file.
>>
>>Agent/Free Agent (Newsreader) Index files. The *.DAT (data) file is
>>the
>>main data storage area. All your subscribed Newsgroup messages are in
>>there,
>>along with other information, encoded in binary characters. The other
>>file
>>is an *.IDX file, which is an index to the *.DAT file.
>>
>>Are you using another database program that use *.IDX (Index) files
--
>>EzMlm, ANSYS, WordNet, MySQL, Delphi, FoxPro, etc.?
>>
>>
>>--
>>Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/04/2001
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