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| Thread ID: 76716 | 2007-02-13 10:48:00 | *.bak files in the Recycle Bin | stu161204 (123) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 524470 | 2007-02-14 06:35:00 | Firefox (1.0.7) :eek: Bugs | Murray P (44) | ||
| 524471 | 2007-02-14 11:03:00 | I agree with everyone who said it began last month -or at least that's when I first noticed - & it's after Outlook Express asks if you want it to compact your emails (every 100, I think?). Google told me that then. And Foxy - aren't you a Thunderbird girl? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 524472 | 2007-02-14 22:31:00 | Seems like this is a new thing brought in with a recent update in response to people losing their emails when OE compacts folders whilst downloading mail. Since I haven't got the latest updates I haven't seen the BAK files in the Recycle Bin. And Foxy - aren't you a Thunderbird girl? Eudora. ;) Just use OE for Hotmail. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 524473 | 2007-02-14 23:41:00 | Seems like this is a new thing brought in with a recent update in response to people losing their emails when OE compacts folders whilst downloading mail . Since I haven't got the latest updates I haven't seen the BAK files in the Recycle Bin . It'd be nicer if they just fixed the bug, rather than adding another layer of crud and adding more data, reather than eliminating it . |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 524474 | 2007-02-14 23:54:00 | But that would be way too simple, wouldn't it Murray? :rolleyes: | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 524475 | 2007-02-15 00:08:00 | It doesn't seem to be a bug . A bug is unintentional behaviour . Deleting an email just removes the index to it in the database . Compacting the database actually deletes the contents of the deleted emails . That's to stop the database becoming stupidly large, because it's full of "deleted" matter . Putting the . bak file in the Recycle bin is done to protect people who have (a) deleted emails, (b) compacted the database, so definitely losing the deleted emails, (c) deciding they didn't mean to delete them, and want them back . This gives them a last, very final, chance to get the emails back (unless they have their own backup files, which of course they make every day :D) . To fix that problem would require brain transplants for the users . Even Windows sometimes does what the user tells it to do; not necessarily what the user wants it to do . Computers are like that . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 524476 | 2007-02-15 00:08:00 | Dang! Yes of course Foxy, what was I thinking... that these people write code for a living. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 524477 | 2007-02-15 00:15:00 | It doesn't seem to be a bug . A bug is unintentional behaviour . This has been done to protect people who have (a) deleted emails, (b) compacted the database, so definitely losing the deleted emails, (c) deciding they didn't mean to delete them, and want them back . This gives them a last, very final, chance to get the emails back . To fix that problem would require brain transplants for the users . Even Windows sometimes does what the user tells it to do; not necessarily what the user wants it to do . Computers are like that . Oh I see, it's another layer of protection . Seems a bit odd to stuff them in the Recycle Bin then doesn't it, especially if people are generally unaware of them being there . Better would be for them to be held in the programme's directory and incrementally replaced like most . bak files (as I understand it) . It also begs the question; at what point will they will decide that the user is totally incapable of making any decisions at all? It seems we're pretty close to that now, or was that your point GL? |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 524478 | 2007-02-15 00:24:00 | Close to it? Way past that point. | Graham L (2) | ||
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