Re: Purging, was:: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Dwight A Corrin
Thursday, April 12, 2001, 3:56:24 PM, you wrote: When you delete a message from a folder, it is not really removed: it is only taken out of the folder's index file (*.tbi). When you purge, it is really deleted. But you also need to compress from time and time: remove old entries (messages)

Re: Purging, was:: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Ming-Li
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 at 11:23:03 -0500 Dwight A Corrin wrote: When you delete a message from a folder, it is not really removed: it is only taken out of the folder's index file (*.tbi). When you purge, it is really deleted. But you also need to compress from time and time: remove old entries

Re[2]: Purging, was:: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Dwight A Corrin
Friday, April 13, 2001, 12:10:40 PM, you wrote: I have been compressing, which seems to purge. Today I tried purging, which seems to compress. They appear to be redundant processes. No, as Karin put it, purge and compress are two different things. It's just in TB you can't do Purging

Re: Purging, was:: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-13 Thread Ming-Li
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 at 16:40:43 -0500 Dwight A Corrin wrote: It seems that when I compress all folders, it purges. I went back to look at the explanation Karin gave you, and found what caused the confusion. I'm also at fault, of course, since I endorsed what she said without thinking. I guess

Purging, was:: TB temp files mystery -- an experiment

2001-04-12 Thread Karin Spaink
On 12-04-2001 at 21:55, Dwight A Corrin kindly wrote: Thursday, April 12, 2001, 11:50:11 AM, Ming-Li wrote: I even did a little house cleaning job that I usually do in the weekend: killing dupes in all folders, purging and compressing all folders. Showing my ignorance, I would like to ask: