Re: cleaning up old folders; .TBB & .TBI files

[Chris W .]

Roelof Otten @ 2007-7-09 4:55:37 AM
"cleaning up old folders; .TBB & .TBI files" 

>> If so, is it possible to safely delete these files and the parent
>> folder without causing the program to choke or be stuck?
> It's safe.

But only for the folder you have already deleted. Deleting these files
in live folders will get rid of mail that you probably want to keep.

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Re: cleaning up old folders; .TBB & .TBI files

[Roelof Otten]

Hallo Achdut18,

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 00:54:17 -0500GMT (9-7-2007, 7:54 +0200, where I
live), you wrote:

A> Hi, everyone, I am in the process of cleaning up old mail files,

Yep, sometimes that's necessary.

A> and in some cases I have deleted a folder and all of its contents
A> within the TB mail client; however, in Windows Explorer, I can
A> still see the folder as a subdirectory within The Bat! file
A> directory. Those folders contain messages.tbi and messages.tbb.

When deleting a folder TB gives you three choices what to do with the
messages inside it: Move to trash, Wipe or Leave message base files
intact.
When you go for the third option, TB will leave the matching directory
on your harddisk including the messages.tbb and .tbi files. Those
files are TB's message base. Every folder has them

A> If so, is it possible to safely delete these files and the
A> parent folder without causing the program to choke or be stuck?

It's safe.

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cleaning up old folders; .TBB & .TBI files

[Achdut18]

Hi, everyone, I am in the process of cleaning up old mail files, and
in some cases I have deleted a folder and all of its contents within
the TB mail client; however, in Windows Explorer, I can still see the
folder as a subdirectory within The Bat! file directory. Those folders
contain messages.tbi and messages.tbb. Are these some kind of back up
files? If so, is it possible to safely delete these files and the
parent folder without causing the program to choke or be stuck? None
of the mail being deteleted is anything for which I would ever want to
go back and dig up.

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Re: .tbi files

[Matt Thoene]

On Friday, September 5, 2003 @ 11:36:37 AM [-0700], Roelof Otten wrote:

> In that case deleting the .tbi might help.

I did this after your first reply and it indeed fixed the problem.
Thanks.

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Re: .tbi files

[Roelof Otten]

Hallo Matt,

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:40:45 -0700GMT (5-9-03, 19:40 +0200, where I
live), you wrote:

>> It is save to do so, but what you're describing looks like a large
>> messagebase. When did you compress your inbox for the last time? If
>> that's been awhile than you'd better try that option first.

MT> Should have mentioned that...I've tried compressing several times and
MT> the message base is only about 300.

In that case deleting the .tbi might help.

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Re: .tbi files

[Matt Thoene]

On Friday, September 5, 2003 @ 10:36:26 AM [-0700], Roelof Otten wrote:

MT>> I'm having a little problem with one of my inboxen. When a new message
MT>> arrives, I'll click on the folder, and it'll take anywhere from 15 to 90
MT>> seconds to display it. Is it safe to delete the .tbi for that folder and
MT>> re-read it?

> It is save to do so, but what you're describing looks like a large
> messagebase. When did you compress your inbox for the last time? If
> that's been awhile than you'd better try that option first.

Should have mentioned that...I've tried compressing several times and
the message base is only about 300.

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Re: .tbi files

[Roelof Otten]

Hallo Matt,

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:17:16 -0700GMT (5-9-03, 19:17 +0200, where I
live), you wrote:

MT> I'm having a little problem with one of my inboxen. When a new message
MT> arrives, I'll click on the folder, and it'll take anywhere from 15 to 90
MT> seconds to display it. Is it safe to delete the .tbi for that folder and
MT> re-read it?

It is save to do so, but what you're describing looks like a large
messagebase. When did you compress your inbox for the last time? If
that's been awhile than you'd better try that option first.

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.tbi files

[Matt Thoene]

Hi,

I'm having a little problem with one of my inboxen. When a new message
arrives, I'll click on the folder, and it'll take anywhere from 15 to 90
seconds to display it. Is it safe to delete the .tbi for that folder and
re-read it?

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Matt



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Re: tbb and tbi files - housekeeping

[Bill McCarthy]

On Fri 30-May-03 1:40pm-0400, Wilfried Mestdagh wrote:

> I see in the mail folder, that all mails are saved in a *.tbb file and there
> is also for each one a *.tbi file witch I assume it is an index file.

> Do I have to backup the index files also, or are they automaticly recreated if
> missing ?  I also assume that deleted files are marked as such in the index
> file, but I put compact folders on exit on.

Although the index file would be regenerated, you'll lose such things
as Flags, Replied to message marks, colors, etc.

You can have TB do the backup with Tools->Backup.

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tbb and tbi files - housekeeping

[Wilfried Mestdagh]

Hello,

  I see in the mail folder, that all mails are saved in a *.tbb file and there
  is also for each one a *.tbi file witch I assume it is an index file.

  Do I have to backup the index files also, or are they automaticly recreated if
  missing ?  I also assume that deleted files are marked as such in the index
  file, but I put compact folders on exit on.

  thanks !

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Re: TBB and TBI Files

[joeo]

Hi ,

 Thanks to all who have responded and been so helpful!

Best regards,
 
 Joe O   mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thursday, October 26, 2000, 8:21:43 AM, you wrote:

> HI,

> Can someone please tell me what is in messages.tbb and messages.tbi?

> The inbox folder shows NO messages but the messages.tbb is 33MB an the
> messages.tbi is 3MB. Can these files be deleted?



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Re: TBB and TBI Files

[rob]

> Can someone please tell me what is in messages.tbb and messages.tbi?

message-base and index i suppose ...
 
> The inbox folder shows NO messages but the messages.tbb is 33MB an the
> messages.tbi is 3MB. Can these files be deleted?

after deleting messages, click the folder once to select it and use 'Folder' ->
'Purge+Compress' ... 

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Re: TBB and TBI Files

[Nick Danger]

In Reference to "TBB and TBI Files" From joeo: "

j> The inbox folder shows NO messages but the messages.tbb is 33MB an the
j> messages.tbi is 3MB. Can these files be deleted?


Sure, just backup first.  ;-P

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Re: TBB and TBI Files

[Karin Spaink]

On 26-10-2000 at 14:21, joeo kindly wrote:

> Can someone please tell me what is in messages.tbb and messages.tbi?

Each folder [name] that you define will create a new
subdirectory [name] containing a file messages.tbb (the
message database) and messages.tbi (the index to the
messages).


> The inbox folder shows NO messages but the messages.tbb is 33MB an the
> messages.tbi is 3MB. Can these files be deleted?

Yes, they can be deleted, but you'd lose your mail...



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Re: TBB and TBI Files

[Christian Gassmann]

joeo wrote:

> Can someone please tell me what is in messages.tbb and messages.tbi?

These are the message database and index files.

> The inbox folder shows NO messages but the messages.tbb is 33MB an the
> messages.tbi is 3MB. Can these files be deleted?

No! This would delete your messages. Instead, purge and compress your
Inbox within TB.

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TBB and TBI Files

[joeo]

HI,

Can someone please tell me what is in messages.tbb and messages.tbi?

The inbox folder shows NO messages but the messages.tbb is 33MB an the
messages.tbi is 3MB. Can these files be deleted?



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