Subj : TB dropping ngs
To : Ed Vance
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Nov 10 2020 08:53 pm
Hello Ed!
** On Tuesday 10.11.20 - 10:59, Ed Vance wrote to August Abolins:
EV> Sorry to hear about Your TB problems.
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EV> Many years ago I thought to use TB's "Compact" option,
EV> thinking it would reduce TB using some HDD Space, after
EV> Compacting finished TB's In-Box didn't have any messages
EV> in it.
Maybe you had another option enabled that told it to delete
messages that were older by a certain number of days?
But I just used Compact on my email folder and everything went
well. I did not see any extra switches or conditions to
configure.
Maybe you encountered a known bug in that version?
EV> I think I had over 1000 messages in the In-Box before I
EV> Compacted TB but I never have been able to learn how I
EV> could had recovered those messages back when they
EV> disappeared.
I can imagine the diappointment.
EV> I had made some Sub-Directories below the In-Box
EV> Directory for storing messages by Topic and the
EV> Compacting process didn't mess with the messages I had
EV> put in those Sub-Directories.
