What does Maintenance/Clean-Up do?

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For various reasons, I've got a mucked-up directory structure (or message box
structure) in Windows Mail, resulting mostly from trying to get rid of files
that cannot be deleted. I'd love to rebuild the message database, but I'm
not sure I can find all the directories containing all my folders. I see
that there's a program that one can navigate to in Windows Mail: Under
Tools/Options/Advanced/Maintenance, one can select "Clean Up Now", and then
get to choose to "Remove Messages" (= "remove all downloaded message
Bodies"), "Delete" (="delete all headers and message bodies"), or "Reset"
(="delete all headers and message bodies and reset the folder(s) so that
headers will be re-downloaded"). Will this rebuild the message database
without getting rid of all my messages, or will this simply get rid of all my
messages?
 
No, that's all for newsgroup maintenance. You want to move everything out
of the message store and start fresh.

Go to Tools | Options | Advanced | Maintenance | Store Folder to find the
message store location. Then move everything under that Windows Mail
directory to another directory, so that the Windows Mail directory is
completely empty. Then restart WinMail and it will open fresh with nothing
in the database. You can then add your accounts and if they work correctly
then you can import messages from the directory to which you moved the files
back into WinMail (see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#wm2wm).

steve
 
That would work in old Outlook Express, but it doesn´t work with the deleted
files in Windows mail!!!!!
I did this and the Deleted folder maintained all the messages I excluded...
the difference is that now it doesn´t show the content of the messages
anymore... That´s not smart, isn´t it??? Why there is no reindex button, or
something that could inform the program that this should be done?


Steve Cochran said:
No, that's all for newsgroup maintenance. You want to move everything out
of the message store and start fresh.

Go to Tools | Options | Advanced | Maintenance | Store Folder to find the
message store location. Then move everything under that Windows Mail
directory to another directory, so that the Windows Mail directory is
completely empty. Then restart WinMail and it will open fresh with nothing
in the database. You can then add your accounts and if they work correctly
then you can import messages from the directory to which you moved the files
back into WinMail (see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#wm2wm).

steve
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Try the compact and repair buttons of my Windows Mail Utility
(www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/)

steve

Flavio Scorpike said:
That would work in old Outlook Express, but it doesn´t work with the
deleted
files in Windows mail!!!!!
I did this and the Deleted folder maintained all the messages I
excluded...
the difference is that now it doesn´t show the content of the messages
anymore... That´s not smart, isn´t it??? Why there is no reindex button,
or
something that could inform the program that this should be done?
Click to expand...
 
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