Friday, May 3, 2002, 7:16:28 PM, you wrote:
JA> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Lynn Turriff wrote:
>> Hi again ..
>>
>> The fetch hang seems to be fixed. My gratitude knows no
>> bounds; in the usual way of things my system is up 24/7,
>> and the rebooting was driving me nuts.
JA> What was causing it? Bad paths? Glitch?
Sorry, I should have said .. it was the 'attach'
directory, which came in with the old path. I corrected
that, and the problem seems to have gone away.
>> That leaves what to do about purging/compressing the trash
>> folder.
JA> Try turning it off, running it manually... see what
JA> happens... if it still hangs, maybe it is have
JA> problems compressing white spaces (that is what I'm
JA> assuming TB! compress function is doing anyway).
I was actually running it manually, but did test it as
compress on close ... that is what you mean, isn't it?
Same result either way.
JA> If this is the case, it may be something on your PC
JA> that could be causing it... maybe like disk
JA> compression (Double space) for example?
Nope. No disk compression. No fancy stuff like that, and
it's a brand new OS install, and the software has all gone
up on the first pass.
JA> Another idea might be your virus scanner (if you have
JA> one). It may be trying to read the file as TB! tries
JA> to read it (most scanners do that so you cannot open
JA> an infected file). If the virus scanner has the file
JA> 'locked' in a scan, TB! isn't likely to be able to
JA> compress it because it's being used. The program I
JA> write has a similar problem when dealing with the
JA> database... We advise our clients to turn of active
JA> system scans, but leave scans for things such as disks
JA> etc on... purely because the virus scanner holds the
JA> file locked for just too long. If you've got one...
JA> try disabling it.
No good .. I tried it just now, same result. Locked up
tight.
[snip...]
>> I'm still hoping someone will know whether it's safe
>> just to delete the folder.
JA> Are you talking about deleting it from inside TB!?
Yes .. the only folder that won't compress/purge is the
trash folder - all the others work fine.
No doubt this is partly because I didn't do it for so
long, and obviously that folder gets more traffic than any
other location. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa ..
but I'd like to reform, really!
JA> or on the HDD itself? I think the later wouldn't work,
JA> and you'll probably get errors asking where the folder
JA> is (depending on the type of folder I believe). I know
JA> if you specify a specific attachment folder, then
JA> delete that, TB! automatically regenerates it... but
JA> I'm not sure about other folders... it might do it for
JA> things like Trash, and Inbox... but custom folders I
JA> doubt... How about creating a dummy folder, dropping a
JA> copy of a couple of emails in there, so TB! knows it
JA> has data, then closing TB!, and removing the dummy
JA> folder... and reopening... see what the outcome is...
JA> It's a dummy folder, with duplicated emails... so you
JA> should have nothing to worry about.
Since it's the trash folder, and the worst result I could
think of would be that I would have to re-install, I just
tried to delete it, (in TB) but it appears not to be
deleteable. No error message, no info message, just no
result whatever. The folder option 'delete' is actually
greyed out. Hmmm ...
Might have to take my life in my hands and try deleting it
straight off the drive after all, though it does seem a
risky idea. Better back up the critical stuff first :-)
I'll give that some thought ... and thanks for the input!
I'm still here reading, so if something else should
occur ...
Thanks again -
Lynn
[snip]
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