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Packing and purging window

The messages in the database will remain there until you decide to pack and purge conferences. Purge in this context mean to delete old messages from disk, and there is no way to get them back.

Messages marked as deleted with the "Delete Msg On/Off" menu option will also be physically deleted from disk.

If a Xpk-method is defined in the configuration, remaining messages will be compressed with the defined Xpk-method.

THOR can purge a conference based on either global values or separate values for each conference. The values for each conference may be set in the Conference Configuration (in the ConfigTHOR program) and the global values are set in the Global Configuration.

There are two basic methods for purging conferences, one is based on number of messages to keep in each conference, the other is based on the number of days to keep messages. Both of these can be used at the same time.

If you set Msgs to Keep to '100' and Days to Keep to '14', all messages older than 14 days will be deleted, and no more that 100 messages are kept.

One or both of these values may be "ignored", which means messages are not deleted.

All conferences will use the global setting as default. Therefore, it is enough just setting the global values and use these on all conferences. If there is a conference or two that might interest you more than the rest, you typically set higher values for these.

From of release 2.3 of THOR, a new window for this purpose has been added to let you select which conferences to pack/purge in a more controllable fashion.

This window offers the following gadgets:

List of conferences
This is a list of conferences on the system with unread and total messages shown to the left of the conference name.
Pack/purge in
This can be set to "All confs" (default) or "Selected confs". The last selection will only pack/purge the selected conferences in the list.
Start
Will start the pack/purge on all or selected conferences.

The listview containing the conferences can be switch to a list of attachments that were attached to the messages that was purged. If the pack/purge deleted messages that contained attachments, the window will switch to this attachment listview when you are done packing/purging. You may then delete, copy, etc. the attachments.


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