Re: Remove attachments from newsgroup posts

From: Earl Kiosterud (nowhere_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:19:10 -0400

Bruce,

No, I've not moved the newsgroup posts to another folder. I've downloaded
some of them, containing attachments, at which point the headers change from
bold to normal font. When I use Tools-Options-Maint-Clean up and either
remove message bodies, or delete headers and message bodies, followed by
Compact folders, it goes through pretty quickly. Then I go back to the
newsgroup and I still instantly see the headers, even if I restart OE. Most
of the headers are in bold, but those earlier downloaded are still non-bold,
and the attachments are instantly available if I open the posts. I have
DSL, approx 750 Mb/sec, and these attachments will normally take several
seconds to download, so I am confident they're not being downloaded again.

Removing the posts manually by your second suggestion got rid of everything.
I manually selected all of the posts. Then I pressed Delete and responded
to the "are you sure" message. It took quite a while to delete them
(hourglass). Then I did File>Compact all folders. Using Dir on a command
line, I see I picked up about a megabyte of free disk space.

But this method gets rid of the headers, and I never see them again. It
shows no posts in the newsgroup, so I can't go after other stuff. I see no
command to download all the posts from the server. Only posts which arrive
at the server later then the deleting ever appear. I could manually
selectively delete only those in non-bold, I suppose, but I still lose the
ability to see them and download them again if I want to.

I think this used to work. At least I thought it did. Seems to me the
downloaded headers went bold again. I'm beginning to think this isn't a
"how do I do this" question, but more a "what's wrong with this program"
question, which I don't really want to pursue. I'll wait for more stuff to
break, then eventually reload the entire system, as I occasionally have to
do.

But if I'm doing something wrong, and there's a way to remove the posts (and
attachments) to free up disk space, and still see the stuff in the
newsgroup, I'd like to know. Thanks so much for your help. 

-- 
Earl Kiosterud
mvpearl omitthisword at verizon period net
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"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
news:urS6YH6VEHA.3024@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Earl,
>
> You are still looking at the messages in the newsgroup and have not
> moved them to another folder, have you?
>
> The messages aren't being downloaded again, they are just not being
> deleted, correct? As if you didn't do a thing? Lets try deleting the
> messages a different way.
>
> If you want to delete a selection of messages, but not the first or
> last, click on the last message you want to delete, scroll up as far
> as you want to delete messages, hold down the Shift key and click on
> that message. This will highlight the messages in blue. Hit the
> Delete key.
>
> If you want to delete every message after a certain one, click on the
> newest message you want deleted. Hold Ctrl+Shift and tap the End key,
> then Delete.
>
> If you want to delete all messages in a newsgroup, highlight any
> message - Hold Ctrl & A and tap Delete.
>
> Any way you do it, follow up by compacting all your folders
> *manually* while working offline.
>
> File>Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status Bar).
> File>Folder>Compact all folders.
>
> In Tools>Options>Maintenance: Uncheck: Compact messages in background
> and leave this unchecked as it can cause problems such as low memory.
>
> Let me know if this helps.
> -- 
> Bruce Hagen
>    ~IB-CA~
>
>
>
> "Earl Kiosterud" <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:eDbd875VEHA.3696@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Bruce,
> >
> > Yes, in OE 6.  I use Tools>Options>Maintenance>Clean up now.   I
> use Delete
> > headers and message bodies.  Then I can go to a newsgroup and
> headers are
> > still there.  Those messages downloaded are in normal font and
> those not
> > downloaded are in bold.  The attachments are still there.
> >
> > -- 
> > Earl Kiosterud
> > mvpearl omitthisword at verizon period net
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
> > news:ubehl00VEHA.2840@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > You're still in OE, correct?  Just delete the message headers in
> the
> > > NG. Get rid of the posts.
> > >
> > > After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually
> > > while working *offline* and do it often.
> > >
> > > File>Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status
> Bar).
> > > File>Folder>Compact all folders.
> > >
> > > In Tools>Options>Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in
> background
> > > and leave it unchecked.
> > >
> > > I hope this helps. I'm not sure exactly what you are doing.
> > > -- 
> > > Bruce Hagen
> > >    ~IB-CA~
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Earl Kiosterud" <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> > > news:OMd7fl0VEHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > > Hi Folks,
> > > >
> > > > If I have newsgroup posts attachments (and they're large music
> > > files), I
> > > > can't seem to get rid of them to free up disk space.  I can use
> > > Tools,
> > > > Options - Maintenance and remove message bodies, and all kinds
> of
> > > stuff, but
> > > > the files are still there.  I can still open the posts,
> > > double-click the
> > > > attachments, and there they are.  How do I get totally rid of
> them?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > -- 
> > > > Earl
> > > > -------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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