| From: | Anthony W. Prime |
| Date: | 23 Jul 2000 at 18:06:15 |
| Subject: | Re: Hard drive space |
Hi Matt
> > Hiya everybody,
> > when I download my mail I notice that my hard
> > drive space is filling up, but when I clean up database my hard drive
> > space is still the same, how do I reclaim the space where the deleted
> > messages where?
> That would never happen on FFS unless it was corrupted.
> If you're using PFS, check your "deleted files" hidden folder, and get rid
> of the files inside. You might want to change the number of files
> that this
> directory holds somehow - I don't know whether you have to reformat to
> do that though.. (you do for SFS)
> > I'm using Genisis and Microdot-II.
> I think they could be part of the problem - Microdot-II is nasty ;)
Deleting the messages from the deleted folder is not enough to flush them
out in Microdot. One of the menus contains a "compact mailboxes" or similar
command. This will work through the microdot messages and kill them. The
space is then released back to the drive.
... Having RTFM it`s "Cleanup Database" in the Microdot Menu, and if you`ve
got a lot of dead wood it could take a few minutes to run, but it`s nice to
watch the reclaimed space counter rise :)
I could never understand why Microdot (which I happen to like *a lot*)
didn`t do this automatically, as I don`t think you can reclaim them :/
Hope this helps.
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