Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-16 Thread Dierk Haasis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Marck! On Sunday, April 15, 2001 at 8:55:54 PM you wrote: AL Then: FASTIO_WRITE, file is messages.tbi, Result is FAILURE - what the AL heck is that? What does Fastio_x mean? Pass. I don't know it, but think it is a kind of input-output

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-15 Thread Ming-Li
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 at 16:55:12 -0400 Tim Musson wrote: ML even when the number of messages to download is large, I don't ML always see temp files created. One question, what dir are you monitoring? You say the "temp" dir, but which "temp" dir? I guess you didn't follow the other thread

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-15 Thread Ming-Li
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 at 09:23:24 -0700 Ming-Li wrote: I'll get a real-time monitoring tool to try again. Ok, I installed a real-time file activity monitor (freeware) from System Internals, and indeed for every received message there's a temp file created in the temp dir. They're all closed and

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-15 Thread Alexander Levenetz
Hello, Ok, I installed a real-time file activity monitor (freeware) from System Internals, I just did that myself as well. Now I'm rather irritated... Scanning only TB! I get the following results/errors: Request: FASTIO_READ, file is messages.tbi, Result is SUCCESS. Ok, sound good. Then:

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-15 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Alexander, On 15 April 2001 at 20:45:40 +0200 (which was 19:45 where I live) Alexander Levenetz wrote to Ming-Li and made these points: AL Then: FASTIO_WRITE, file is messages.tbi, Result is FAILURE - what the AL heck is that? What does

Re[2]: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-14 Thread Tim Musson
Hey Ming-Li, Friday, April 13, 2001, 12:23:24 PM, you wrote: ML I'm not sure exactly how this works. I watched closely at the temp ML dir when downloading mail, but even when the number of messages to ML download is large, I don't always see temp files created. It's ML possible they're deleted

Re: Purging, was:: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Dwight A Corrin
Thursday, April 12, 2001, 3:56:24 PM, you wrote: When you delete a message from a folder, it is not really removed: it is only taken out of the folder's index file (*.tbi). When you purge, it is really deleted. But you also need to compress from time and time: remove old entries (messages)

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Ming-Li
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 at 10:29:14 +0800 Thomas wrote: This is indeed methodical, Not really, because I didn't set out to try all functions of TB. I just did what I usually do. I also said it's not scientific because I knew it's not real-time monitoring, but infrequent snapshots (1 min. interval

Re: Purging, was:: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Ming-Li
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 at 11:23:03 -0500 Dwight A Corrin wrote: When you delete a message from a folder, it is not really removed: it is only taken out of the folder's index file (*.tbi). When you purge, it is really deleted. But you also need to compress from time and time: remove old entries

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Dierk Haasis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Ming-Li! On Friday, April 13, 2001 at 6:23:24 PM you wrote: Well, since it doesn't affect me, I'm not sure why I'm pursuing this. Kind of foolish, ain't I? :-) First off all, I want to thank you for it. And then, I can tell you why: 1.

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Dierk Haasis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Ming-Li! On Thursday, April 12, 2001 at 6:50:11 PM you wrote: And I don't use TB's ticker, if that makes a difference. As one who has - newly - encountered the mysterious temp problem, I just want to fill in that I am also *not* using the

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Dierk Haasis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Thomas! On Friday, April 13, 2001 at 4:29:14 AM you wrote: This is what you have missed. If there is any doubt about whether the "import" was successful, TB will not delete the files in the temp dir, giving you a chance to find out whether

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Thomas
Hallo Ming-Li, On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:23:24 -0700 GMT (14/04/2001, 00:23 +0800 GMT), Ming-Li wrote: and must have created a rather large log file ML The log is about 2.4 MB, 66 thousand lines, If that is not large... ML I'm not sure exactly how this works. [...] ML 1. why ML 2. why So

Re[2]: Purging, was:: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Dwight A Corrin
Friday, April 13, 2001, 12:10:40 PM, you wrote: I have been compressing, which seems to purge. Today I tried purging, which seems to compress. They appear to be redundant processes. No, as Karin put it, purge and compress are two different things. It's just in TB you can't do Purging

Re: Purging, was:: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Ming-Li
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 at 16:40:43 -0500 Dwight A Corrin wrote: It seems that when I compress all folders, it purges. I went back to look at the explanation Karin gave you, and found what caused the confusion. I'm also at fault, of course, since I endorsed what she said without thinking. I guess

TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-12 Thread Ming-Li
Hello All, From the discussion on the other thread, I seem to be the only one who is not seeing TB temp files in my temp dir regularly, which makes me wonder what I'm missing. :-) So I decided to do a little experiment. Nothing scientific or methodical, just a little observation. I wrote a .bat

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-12 Thread Ming-Li
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 at 09:50:11 -0700 Ming-Li wrote: It created a sub-dir named "bat", and then created the temp file (named "32BCC548.doc") under it. Sorry, I forgot to mentioned: TB did clean up the temp file and the sub-dir it created when I shut it down. -- Best regards, Ming-Li The

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-12 Thread Dwight A Corrin
Thursday, April 12, 2001, 11:50:11 AM, you wrote: I even did a little house cleaning job that I usually do in the weekend: killing dupes in all folders, purging and compressing all folders. Showing my ignorance, I would like to ask: What is purging? It sounds destructive and I have been

Purging, was:: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-12 Thread Karin Spaink
On 12-04-2001 at 21:55, Dwight A Corrin kindly wrote: Thursday, April 12, 2001, 11:50:11 AM, Ming-Li wrote: I even did a little house cleaning job that I usually do in the weekend: killing dupes in all folders, purging and compressing all folders. Showing my ignorance, I would like to ask:

Re: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-12 Thread Thomas
Hi Ming-Li, On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:50:11 -0700GMT (13/04/2001, 00:50 +0800GMT), Ming-Li wrote: ML So I decided to do a little experiment. Nothing scientific or ML methodical, just a little observation. I wrote a .bat file that use ML DOS dir command to list all files under my temp dir and all