I'm running TB Home Edition 5.0.20.1 and as I have been using TB for many years, there seem to be a lot of old stuff accumulated that is taking up space and so I'm doing some housecleaning -- but I'm not sure what is safe to delete and what isn't. So I have these questions:
*1. Attachment Folder, *.msg extensions* TB is configured to store all attachments in a single folder. As attachments take a lot of room, it makes sense for me to go through the folder and either move important files that I need to keep to another part of my computer, and delete other stuff I don't need, especially for older stuff. Attachments can be very large files that take up a lot of room, and they are hard to find within the mail program after a few weeks or months have gone by. In other words: Pictures of my grandson: (move from "attachments" to /pictures/grandson directory -- easier to find that way anyway) Funny joke cat pictures mailed the senders 300 closest friends: delete. forever. goodbye. But I see a lot of files in the "attachments" folder that have the extension *.msg - *I don't know what those are and whether they are needed or not. Are they just superfluous attachments that come from outlook users? or will deleting the .msg file also mean that I have deleted the content of the email that it was initially "attached" to as well? (In which case maybe I need to back up before deleting?) *2. Mail Folders: .BCK, .BK0, .BK1, IBO, IB1* * * My individual mail folders have a lot of OLD files (at least +1 year) that have extensions that look like the above. usually named something like MESSAGES.BCK Am I correct in assuming that these are all backups of one sort or another, and that the ONLY files I need in each folder are: MESSAGES.TBB and MESSAGES.TBN I'm thinking that I could probably get rid of a lot of unneeded stuff, and likely speed up my mail handling if I just got rid of these older files. Anyway, I'd appreciate it if anyone would let me know if there is a reason NOT to delete the above files. Keep in mind that I am talking about files that show "last modified" that are at least a year old. Thanks, Abigail ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
