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although I don't use IMAP, I'm sure nothing bad will happen. You may close theBat and rename the file instead of deleting it. When you start it then the file will likely be recreated. If all OK delete the renamed one. If not rename it back.
20 May 2010 00:06:49, bigg one.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9430/message31726/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9430/message31726/ Thu, 20 May 2010 00:06:49 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Huge (15GB) database file EBB file in Account folder in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Thanks - what you wrote put me on the right track.  The folder is actually the Cached Messages folder on the IMAP specific settings.  Unfortunately I still don't know what to do with it.  I have tried ticking "Clear cached messages on exit" and closing The Bat! which does not seem to have done anything, and "Clear cache now" which causes the file to grow!  It is now 16GB so I need to do something soon.  Does anyone know what will happen if I just close The Bat! and then delete the file?
18 May 2010 17:08:32, Christopher Moseley.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9430/message31720/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9430/message31720/ Tue, 18 May 2010 17:08:32 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Huge (15GB) database file EBB file in Account folder in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
IIRC you can sel ect a folder and select the properties and you can find the name of the matching file there. Currentlky I haven't got an OTFE setup, so I can't tell you how excatly, but I guess it's somewhere in the title bar of the propertioes window.

Another way to find the matching folder is to close TB, move the messages.* files fr om your problem folder to another location and start TB. The folder that's unexpectedly without any messages is the problem folder.

As soon as you've identified the bad folder, you can try to identify and solve the problem.
18 May 2010 16:43:28, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9430/message31719/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9430/message31719/ Tue, 18 May 2010 16:43:28 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Huge (15GB) database file EBB file in Account folder in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
I have the latest version of The Bat! with on-the-fly encryption running on Windows 7.  Everything has been fine until very recently one of the EBB files has started to grow massively by up to 1GB per day.  Since the file name is encrypted so I cannot be sure what folder it refers to but the biggest one (viewed from The Bat!) for that particular account is only 1500 messages. On other accounts I have far larger folders (3000+ messages) but no correspondingly large file.

The other peculiarity is that this file (and a number of others with encrypted names) is not in a subfolder (in Windows) but directly in the account folder.  Like my other accounts, when I view the database file structure in Windows I have a series of folders each with a MESSAGE.EBB and MESSAGE.EBN file but in no other accounts do I have files with encrypted names directly in the account folder itself, only a series of ACCOUNT files with different suffixes.  The only difference is that this is an IMAP account and the others are all POP3.

I already compress all files on exit so that is not the solution.  If necessary I can backup, uninstall and re-install The Bat! but before I do that I just wanted to see if anyone has any other ideas or solutions.  Thanks in advance for your advice.
18 May 2010 10:15:45, Christopher Moseley.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9430/message31718/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9430/message31718/ Tue, 18 May 2010 10:15:45 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client