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- From: neil@bothwick.demon.co.uk (Neil Bothwick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Thor v2.22 message database problem
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 09:00:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1361.6585T603T2690@bothwick.demon.co.uk>
- References: <30F2899A.6AE8@topcity.mn.org> <1021.6583T1382T1396@bendigo.net.au>
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- Hi there jeffn, I believe it was you who said:
- >>Here's a good one: I read all the messages in the database stored on
- >>my hard drive. With 0 messages unread in all conferences, I clicked
- >>on "Pack/Purge" in the command dock. Thor cycled through all my
- >>conferences like it was doing something, but my problem is it *did
- >>not* give me back my disk space (i.e. the files in the "Data/BBS0"
- >>directory did not decrease in size). Any ideas as to why??? And
- >>can I still convince Thor to reduce those file sizes (actually
- >>delete the messages from the hard drive) when no messages show up in
- >>any conference? Thanks in advance.
-
- > Try setting your conference configuration for the number of messages to keep
- > and number of days to keep messages for in each conference
-
- > Or set the global configuration / database options msgs to keep and days to
- > keep
-
- > eg: msgs to keep 0
- > days to keep 0
-
- > This would mean that if you Pack/Purge Msgs it should delete the lot make
- > sure you have read them first
-
- Pack/Purge only removes *read* messages. It will leave unread messages
- in the database forever, no matter what your config settings.
-
-
- Neil
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