powermail-discuss Digest #2729 - Friday, November 9, 2007
.old files
by "Carl Darby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: .old files
by "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spotlight & Finder hits
by "Leonard Morgenstern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: .old files
by "Carl Darby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: .old files
From: "Carl Darby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:42:02 +0000
Forgive the silly question, but in the Powermail Files folder there are
>quite a few files with the suffix .old
>
>Is it safe to delete these as they are quite large!!
>
>Ta.
>
>
>Carl
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Subject: Re: .old files
From: "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:23:25 -0400
Hi Carl,
>Forgive the silly question, but in the Powermail Files folder there are
>quite a few files with the suffix .old
>
>Is it safe to delete these as they are quite large!!
These are copies of your database files made by PowerMail prior to
compacting the database. You might want to keep the most recent one,
but assuming you do regular backups in general, you don't need to keep
these around if your current PM database is working.
Jim
--
Jim Pistrang
JP Computer Resources
Certified Member, Apple Consultants Network
413-256-4569
<http://www.jpcr.com>
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Subject: Spotlight & Finder hits
From: "Leonard Morgenstern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 09:18:09 -0800
My Powermail database was corrupted in a novel way & I thought it was
worth warning everybody. Possibly the next upgrade ought to include a fix.
I did a Finder "Find" command looking for a certain word. In addition to
the usual hits, there were also some icons for messages in my e-mail database.
I clicked on one of them, thinking, "That's nice. I don't have to do a
second search in Powermail." My mail data base was corrupted.
Fortunately, I had backed up less than 24 hours before & was able to
restore it.
I suspect the same thing would happen in Spotlight, but I didn't try it.
Leonard Morgenstern
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No one is ever interesting by trying to be interesting. Mitch LaSalle
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Subject: Re: .old files
From: "Carl Darby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 11:31:21 +0000
Thank you very much. All seems to working so have deleted and gained
rather a lot of space!!
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:23:25 -0400 Jim Pistrang wrote:
>Hi Carl,
>
>>Forgive the silly question, but in the Powermail Files folder there are
>>quite a few files with the suffix .old
>>
>>Is it safe to delete these as they are quite large!!
>
>These are copies of your database files made by PowerMail prior to
>compacting the database. You might want to keep the most recent one,
>but assuming you do regular backups in general, you don't need to keep
>these around if your current PM database is working.
>
>Jim
>
>--
>Jim Pistrang
>JP Computer Resources
>Certified Member, Apple Consultants Network
>413-256-4569
><http://www.jpcr.com>
>
>
>
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