Hi beth,
On 8 Aug 2004 at 10:19, beth spoke, thus:
> I don't yet own a BN but I could picture doing it. One thing I don't get:
> If you have marked and trashed all your E-mails, doesn't that in and of
> itself free up space? I mean, if not, why not? There's nothing there any
> more so why isn't the space free? Just curious. Thanks. Beth
The index for the folders is updated so that the messages are effectively
gone, but the database containing the actual mail has not yet been
relieved of the message. Strictly speaking, this is only true if you
terminate the session and delete mail you have already retrieved only
after re-entering. Moving messages just involves fiddling around with the
indexes, so to speak, in a very simplified way. Free database space
actually looks at the indexes and figures out how to remove all redundant
data from the database, i.e. delete all data not referenced by any
folders. In normal cases this isn't oft necessary, but if you receive
attachments and multipart mail it is frequently a good idea to run it.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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