Hi On Monday 25 September 2006 at 6:16:59 PM, in <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Meyns wrote:
> Hi MFPA, > on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:35:01 +0100GMT (25.09.2006, 17:35 +0200GMT here), > you wrote: M>> When creating a new folder the "On exit...compress the folder" box M>> is not selected by default. Is it possible to change this default? > IIRC, it used to be the default. I thought it must have been because it was only more recent folders that had it unchecked. > It was changed because users with large message bases prefer to > do the purging/compressing manually, when time suits. Why not allow us to choose our own default? (I mean select a set of folder properties and tick a box saying these were the default properties for subsequent new folders.) > I have more than 250 folders with about 200 new messages per > day. Purging and compressing takes about 4 minutes, and I don't > want to wait that time when I exit The Bat!. I have less folders and about 50-70 new messages per day. The 1-2 minutes taken to compress folders before TB! exits does not bother me unduly. It still closes faster than the likes of M$ Word (-; > So I like it that I don't have to remember to untick the "on > exit..." box, whenever I create a new folder. :) Conversely, I do not like having to remember to do something that was previously done for me by default )-: -- Best regards, MFPA Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. Using The Bat! v3.80.06 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.85.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
