Hello Bob, > 1. Does "refresh" rebuild the index of a mailbox?
No. As Roelof points in his reply, 'Refresh' is for VFs and I think it should be disabled (greyed out) for normal folders. > 2. I notice, in each folder, a .TBB and a .TBI file, together with > a group of .tmp files. Is .TBI the index? As other have already responded, yes they are. > And why are there .tmp files in each mailbox? That's a good question. I'm 99.99% sure these are not created by TB. I've been using TB for a number of years and I have never seen TB generated *.tmp files in any of account folders. AFAIK TB temp files are of the form batXXXX.tmp and they are generated in %TEMP% or %TMP% directories (not sure which because in my system they both point to the same 'Temp' directory. These bat*.tmp files are usually deleted by TB. I think I've read in another message from you that you use BitDefender antivirus, correct? This would be my first 'suspect' of generating these tmp files. Configure it to "Exclude" from normal scanning your 'Mail' directory and all its sub-folders. Or you can also 'exclude' *.tbb and *.tbi. If you antivirus is already scanning email as it comes in, scanning those folder/files is redundant, will consume resource and have an impact in performance. Aside of that, it may cause problems of the type you are having. > 3. Is it dangerous to delete a .TBI file and let The Bat generate a > new one automatically? Will it, in fact, generate a new TBI file in > a given mailbox if I delete the old one? Yes, TB will generate a new *.tbi file but, as it has already been pointed out, you will loose Memos if you have any. But you shouldn't need to do this if you find the real root of your problem, since I started using TB years ago, I never had to delete a TBI file. > Also, a related question. TB website said to try to keep the inbox > down to 50 messages or less, and I have tried to do that. Pegasus > Mail, by default, moves all new inbox mail to a "main" folder when > exiting Pegasus (as a default option), so that the inbox is clean > when starting the next time. Would that feature be helpful in TB? As pointed out by Roleof, the way to go to achieve this is to use the 'Alternative deletion' option. But as he also points out, if your set and configure this option at account level, it will affect all folder in your account. The Inbox is one off the system folders and is much less configurable (less options) than normal folders . What I have done to overcome this limitation of Inbox is to create a normal folder that I call 'My Inbox'. Then, I have an Incoming filter (the last one) that will move to My Inbox any received message that has not been moved by any preceding filter. This way, my Inbox is always empty and, because My Inbox is a normal folder, I can configure for example 'Alternative deletion' just for this folder. I may have some more comments to replies in this thread or to your newest "More On TBB and TBI" message. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v3.95.8 on Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.95.08 | '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/
