Hello Tony, Sunday, November 7, 2004, 4:17:31 PM, among other things, you wrote:
TB> Occasionally I buy software off the web, The Bat, Time & Chaos, Acronis, TB> MailwasherPro, NOD32 and Kerio to name a few. They send me an email with TB> all my registration details, I put it in an archive folder, Park it and TB> don't have to worry about accidentally deleting it. TB> I have deliberately made multiple duplicates of all of these both on CD, SD TB> and USB memory sticks just in case... It's invariably TB! I look to first TB> should I need them. Yes, but these 'duplicates' are all stored in different media or different folders. The TB 'Kill dupes' feature only deals with duplicates which occur within a single folder. It does NOT compare the contents of a folder with the contents of any other folder. As proof of this in my own setup let me explain part of it: ALL of my outgoing mail is copied to the 'Sent mail' folder, some of the messages are also copied to one or more folders according to the Addressee, the Subject, or some other identifying feature. Routine maintenance which includes 'Remove duplicates' has never removed any of these multiple copies. They are not duplicates in the sense which 'Kill dupes' operates. TB> Unlike a lot of people, I delete most of the mail I receive especially when TB> a thread I'm participating in is finished. I then go on a frenzied deletion TB> spree. But there is the occasional one I want to keep so I park it just in TB> case I get too click happy. I do the same, for the same reasons. But, as I have explained in my other reply to you, TB has created duplicates within a single folder. I'm not certain when this happened but assume it probably occurred during the period when we were all battling to sort out the new filter system and were making numerous tests. Given my comments here, can you give me a good and sensible reason why anybody would want to keep duplicates of a message within the same folder? In response to those who are suggesting that we cannot trust the 'Kill dupes' feature I'd remind them that it is prudent to make a backup before carrying out any cleanup action, in any application. I await your responses with keen anticipation. <big grin> -- Best regards, Roger Flying with The Bat!, version 3.0.2.4 Rush, and antispam BayesIt! 0.7.4 on Windows ME, version 3000, Build 90 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.0.2.5 Rush | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
