http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in Large files MESSAGES.IBx & MESSAGES.BKx of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:56:44 +0300 Large files MESSAGES.IBx & MESSAGES.BKx in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.

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Doesn't remove those files-
19/04/2019  02:13     4,868,607,986 MESSAGES.BCK
29/04/2019  22:22     4,897,531,781 MESSAGES.BK0
17/05/2019  22:34     4,932,466,035 MESSAGES.BK1
18/05/2019  23:38     4,933,709,888 MESSAGES.BK2
24/05/2019  00:54     4,946,077,803 MESSAGES.BK3
16/06/2019  22:59     4,995,983,260 MESSAGES.BK4
24/06/2019  21:47     5,008,947,912 MESSAGES.BK5
27/07/2019  01:47     5,091,047,256 MESSAGES.BK6
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I can only find:

MESSAGES.TBB
MESSAGES.TBN

The extension BCK, BK0 etc do not look like The Bat extensions.
10 July 2024 21:56:44, Rick Gijsbers.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56931/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56931/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:56:44 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Large files MESSAGES.IBx & MESSAGES.BKx in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
May be this is some old backup that you are not remember. Just move it to some external drive where you store backups.
05 July 2024 12:40:07, George Salnik.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56925/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56925/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:40:07 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Large files MESSAGES.IBx & MESSAGES.BKx in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.

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Daniel van Rooijen wrote:

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Niamh Holding wrote:
I seem to have a collection of these in my data storage. numbered 0 to 6 as in MESSAGES.BK0 etc.
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Most likely they're just old backup files (of a message base), but not like The Bat makes them. Did you use any third party backup software at the time?



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Backup4all, but that backed up to a separate physical drive
04 July 2024 16:36:39, Niamh Holding.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56924/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56924/ Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:36:39 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Large files MESSAGES.IBx & MESSAGES.BKx in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.

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Niamh Holding wrote:
I seem to have a collection of these in my data storage. numbered 0 to 6 as in MESSAGES.BK0 etc.
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Most likely they're just old backup files (of a message base), but not like The Bat makes them. Did you use any third party backup software at the time?

Have you lost any important messages since 2019? If not, maybe you should rename these files (to MESSAGES-BK0.TMP etc, for instance) and see if everything still works as expected. If nothing bad happens in the next few weeks, you'll have greater confidence that these files can be deleted.


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George Salnik wrote:
R.Click on folder - purge and compact (CTRL+C). Do this magic thing with every folder that you have.
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When you do this from Folder > Maintenance Center, you can process all folders at once.
04 July 2024 03:24:07, Daniel van Rooijen.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56923/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56923/ Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:24:07 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Large files MESSAGES.IBx & MESSAGES.BKx in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.

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George Salnik wrote:
Better way to compress database is to delete deleted messages and compress folders.

R.Click on folder - purge and compact (CTRL+C). Do this magic thing with every folder that you have.
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Doesn't remove those files-
19/04/2019  02:13     4,868,607,986 MESSAGES.BCK
29/04/2019  22:22     4,897,531,781 MESSAGES.BK0
17/05/2019  22:34     4,932,466,035 MESSAGES.BK1
18/05/2019  23:38     4,933,709,888 MESSAGES.BK2
24/05/2019  00:54     4,946,077,803 MESSAGES.BK3
16/06/2019  22:59     4,995,983,260 MESSAGES.BK4
24/06/2019  21:47     5,008,947,912 MESSAGES.BK5
27/07/2019  01:47     5,091,047,256 MESSAGES.BK6
03 July 2024 20:40:12, Niamh Holding.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56922/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56922/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 20:40:12 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Large files MESSAGES.IBx & MESSAGES.BKx in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Remember - after this magic thing you won't have ability to see deleted messages in a folder.
03 July 2024 19:09:55, George Salnik.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56921/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56921/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 19:09:55 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Large files MESSAGES.IBx & MESSAGES.BKx in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Better way to compress database is to delete deleted messages and compress folders.

R.Click on folder - purge and compact (CTRL+C). Do this magic thing with every folder that you have.
03 July 2024 19:09:03, George Salnik.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56920/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56920/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 19:09:03 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Large files MESSAGES.IBx & MESSAGES.BKx in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
I seem to have a collection of these in my data storage. numbered 0 to 6 as in MESSAGES.BK0 etc.


I also have MESSAGES.BCK and MESSAGES.IBK

All the files have timestamps from various dates in 2019.

Given the total size is some 37GB can they be deleted or are they serving some useful purpose?
03 July 2024 15:07:50, Niamh Holding.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56918/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic16371/message56918/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:07:50 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client