Hello Spike, On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:27:30 -0500 GMT (14/01/03, 23:27 +0700 GMT), Spike wrote:
> I have been exploring my drive for wasted file space and have > discovered 324 files in; > C:\WINDOWS\TEMP > The files are MOSTLY '0-byte' empty files, but there are 14 that > are between 21 and 45MB each, with the filenames such as > batA144.tmp. What are these files and are they related to TB! or > not? The ones named bat*.tmp are related to TB. Whenever TB downloads mail, it puts each into the tmp folder first, then imports it into the mail database, and if everything is successful, deletes it from the tmp folder. If there is a problem, the bat*.tmp file stays were it is, so that you can debug (if you want to). There can be two reasons why the files stay there regularly: 1.) Your connection is unstable. This was the case over here; at my old appartment, the telephone conection was vut after 20 minutes, and if that was during a mail check, such .tmp files stayed in the tmp directory. 2.) There is a problem. Now, you mention that all these messages date until May 2002. I remember there was a version that produced bat droppings, but the problem has long been fixed (it could have been a beta, I don't remember). Maybe you were running that version. And yes, you can safely delete them. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.63 Beta/3 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
