Hi Mary, Charlene and all M> I think it is a "trifle" buggy, even for me, in that when I allowed Windows M> to close The Bat! for me, the customary "compress all folders on exit" did M> not take place.
M> Oh! Just now thought to check--and nor did it delete the contents of the M> Trash folder, as it is set to do. I'd lay the blame, if in fact there isn't any, on Windows for this behaviour. :) In fact, I'd go as far as to say TB is behaving well in this situation. During a normal stop, it has time to finish that last drink and saunter out quietly into the sunset. When Windows is threatening to kick it out into the cold dark street and lock the door behind it, though, at least it has the grace not to knock over all the tables in its rush for the exit. Well, usually anyway. C>> In fact my TB hung several times and not even task manager did appear C>> pressing ctrl+alt+del, so I decided to press the power button. To my C>> surprise nothing happened. M> there was something in a somewhat long-ago version where even though it M> looked as if the CC had finished its task and disconnected from the server, M> it was still present as if connected. And again, I'm not convinced this is entirely due to a bug in TB. OK, in some ways it is and in others it isn't. Windows' shutdown process should be able to take care of this kind of bug, but has been poorly-constructed. So instead of closing programs, or at least popping up a dialog to ask the user's permission to close them, it can in some situations just hang and refuse to stop. Sure, TB has perhaps gone into a loop during which it isn't checking for incoming signals from the OS, but Windows has access to all processing levels so should be able to break it out of there if necessary. I think the basic problem is an inability to communicate between some of the underlying pieces of the operating system, which stems in part from the fact that later MS OSs are, in code terms, really a mishmash of bits and pieces scavanged from older, younger and sometimes even non-existent versions of the OS. I'm not convinced all the ramifications of some of the 'design' decisions made during later Windows versions are even fully understood by the people who made those decisions. With all this going on in the background and some truly arcane and contradictory rules in Windows programming, POP/IMAP standards, etc, it's no wonder the poor RIT boys have their hands full. -- Groetjes Natasha The Bat! 3.5.28 on Windows XP Professional 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.28 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
