Re: Scary message (success!)
Hello MFPA, On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:03:53 +0100 GMT (12-Aug-13, 04:03 +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: Yeah, just delete them. They are not needed anymore and just slow down your system. Any ideas why would they be in that folder instead of the Temp folder? I get them in the temp folder, and they are usually deleted when I close TB!. But sometimes my anti-virus interefers before TB! finishes, or my computer hangs, or TB! freezes, or whatever, and they are not deleted until I do it. No, I don't know the answer to that. I thought they were in the temp folder. But then, Windows is mysterious, and I find my addressbook (.adb files) all over the place. Weirdly enough, TB! always finds it. -- Cheers, Thomas. http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 5.4 under Windows 7 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Scary message (success!)
Hello Jack, On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:27:12 -0500 GMT (12-Aug-13, 05:27 +0700 GMT), Jack S. LaRosa wrote: TF I believe you would have had the same result had you deleted the index TF file as I suggested. ;-) Too late now to check. In retrospect it sure would have been easier to simply rename the MESSAGES.TBN file as you originally suggested instead of going through the procedures I eventually undertook. But my abject fear of losing all 1900-plus messages caused me to exercise an absurd amount of caution. Remember, this was my wife's TB! Somehow, it just seemed safer to do it the way I eventually did. Better safe than sorry, I agree. that's why I always rename when someone suggests delete. ;-) TF Yeah, just delete them. They are not needed anymore and just slow down TF your system. Anymore? That implies that they were needed at some point in the past does it not? Were they generated from previous versions and then just never cleaned out with successive upgrades? TB! downloads the messages individually from the server into .tmp files and then imports them into the messages.tbb file. Once they are in the messages.tbb, the .tmp should be deleted. Sometimes they are not - but since you said all messages are there now, the .tmp files are indeed no longer needed. -- Cheers, Thomas. http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 5.4 under Windows 7 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Scary message (success!)
Hello Jack, On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:34:57 -0500 GMT (10-Aug-13, 04:34 +0700 GMT), Jack S. LaRosa wrote: Thanks to everyone's patience and understanding, I finally understood that I had to create a new folder using Windows Explorer in the same directory which contained the original Faux inbox folder. After a couple of failed tries (because I copied EVERYTHING contained in the Faux inbox folder) I finally learned that all I had to copy was the MESSAGE.TBB file, nothing else. I believe you would have had the same result had you deleted the index file as I suggested. ;-) Too late now to check. I have just one remaining question though, the original Faux inbox folder when viewed using WE showed A LOT of .tmp files, some quite large. Anyone have any idea how those were created and what they're for? No biggie but I am curious. Yeah, just delete them. They are not needed anymore and just slow down your system. -- Cheers, Thomas. http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 5.4 under Windows 7 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Scary message (success!)
Hi On Sunday 11 August 2013 at 4:35:05 PM, in mid:1768351342.20130811223...@thebat.net, Thomas Fernandez wrote: Yeah, just delete them. They are not needed anymore and just slow down your system. Any ideas why would they be in that folder instead of the Temp folder? I get them in the temp folder, and they are usually deleted when I close TB!. But sometimes my anti-virus interefers before TB! finishes, or my computer hangs, or TB! freezes, or whatever, and they are not deleted until I do it. -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Alcohol and Calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive. Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Scary message (success!)
Hello Thomas, On Sunday, August 11, 2013 you wrote: TF Hello Jack, TF On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:34:57 -0500 GMT (10-Aug-13, 04:34 +0700 GMT), TF Jack S. LaRosa wrote: Thanks to everyone's patience and understanding, I finally understood that I had to create a new folder using Windows Explorer in the same directory which contained the original Faux inbox folder. After a couple of failed tries (because I copied EVERYTHING contained in the Faux inbox folder) I finally learned that all I had to copy was the MESSAGE.TBB file, nothing else. TF I believe you would have had the same result had you deleted the index TF file as I suggested. ;-) Too late now to check. In retrospect it sure would have been easier to simply rename the MESSAGES.TBN file as you originally suggested instead of going through the procedures I eventually undertook. But my abject fear of losing all 1900-plus messages caused me to exercise an absurd amount of caution. Remember, this was my wife's TB! Somehow, it just seemed safer to do it the way I eventually did. Fortunately, it worked and now it's documented in the archives for the next poor shulb faced with the same thing. I have just one remaining question though, the original Faux inbox folder when viewed using WE showed A LOT of .tmp files, some quite large. Anyone have any idea how those were created and what they're for? No biggie but I am curious. TF Yeah, just delete them. They are not needed anymore and just slow down TF your system. Anymore? That implies that they were needed at some point in the past does it not? Were they generated from previous versions and then just never cleaned out with successive upgrades? -- Best Regards, Jack LaRosa :usflag: Central Alabama Using The Bat! ver: 5.2. Running Windows 7 Pro ver 6 build 7601 Service Pack 1 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
