Hello subscriber2list, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:57:37 -0400 GMT (15/09/2006, 00:57 +0700 GMT), subscriber2list wrote:
s> Using Bat Version 2.11.2. s> But when I tried to do the same process with various Inboxes that had s> much larger numbers, i.e., 40K+, under the Deleted column, it seemed s> not to work properly. The Folder Maintenance Centre's window just s> displayed forever. The progress bar eventually filled up to the end, s> but the process appeared to be still running on the surface. However, s> when I looked to some how much CPU process time was being used by this s> activity ... it was down to nothing ... zero, zilch ... so I figured s> the process had run its course, however, there was no indication of s> this from the displayed window at all ... meaning no message was s> displayed the read similar to "folder such and such has been s> processed, so many messages removed and amount of space saved". You need more patience. I had that same with TBv2 when compressing large folders (it seems to depend on how many MB of not deleted messages are left in the Inbox), just let it sit and wait it out. s> Soooo ... I then took the following action of selecting under the s> Folder menu the "Browse deleted messages" option. Yup, the messages s> were still there! Of course. You cancelled the compress action, which actually creates a new file on the disk. This was not completed, so TB goes by default back to the old file. This works as desired. s> I was able to "undelete these messages", one at a time, and have s> them restored to the Inbox folder. Deleting them again did not seem s> to get rid of them. "Deleting" a message in a folder is just setting flag which tells TB not to display them. to actually get them deleted from the database, you need to "compress". That's the way it works. s> Is there a way to retrieve all these deleted messages in mass versus a s> one by one process and really get rid of them? I wish to get rid of s> them as obviously they occupy quite a bit of space. I also suggest to purge & compress more regularly. If you are not sure whether you want to delete a message (so that you can restore it later if need be), move those to an extra folder called "Maybe deleted" by using Account / Properties / Mail Management / Deletion. -- Cheers, Thomas. ZWIEBELN statt Kiwis kaufen! Sie sind laenger haltbar und ausserdem preiswerter. http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 3.85.03 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.85.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
