On Thursday, September 14, 2000, 7:05:37 AM, Thomas wrote:
MRH>> The big warning here is that the 'Outbox' folder under TB is
MRH>> not set by default to automatically compress and purge.
> Since the sent messages are copied to the Sent folder, this
> surprises me on second thought. They are not, for no reason,
> needed to remain in the Outbox, so one would not suspect them to
> be there. But yo are right, I just checked, and all messages I
> ever sent are there, taking up huge amounts of disk space of
> course.
It's because TB moves sent messages from the Outbox folder to the
Sent folder the same way it moves other messages--by copying them
over and deleting the originals (it's basically what "moving" works
in computer anyway). As any other database applications, a deletion
is in fact a "nominal" action, meaning it's marked as deleted in the
index file. A deleted message is physically removed only when a
folder is compressed. So when an index file is lost and TB recreates
it, all deleted messages naturally reappear.
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Best regards,
Ming-Li
The Bat! 1.46 Beta/6 | Win2k SP1
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