Re: IE6, 98SE .db? Filedates

From: Jim Pickering (jimp_at_mvps.0rg)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:09:29 -0800

That's been caused in the past by Norton. Is that the AV program you're
using? If so, ask on the Symantec help forums for some assistance as to why
Norton changes file dates. You also should not have any DBT files on your
computer as they are temporary files created during a compacting operation
that are deleted when compacting completes. If you have DBT files, it
suggests you or some other user has been forcing OE to shut down while
compacting is taking place or a power failure has occurred while compacting. 

-- 
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
Please reply only to newsgroup.
"Frank Haber" <frhaber@N0SPAMrcn.com> wrote in message 
news:O7SAB5yyEHA.1292@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Here's a curiosity.  On two 98SE machines, with reasonable (300-1000) 
> records
> per dbx, and about 60 dbx-es, manually and frequently compacted....
>
> I get errors from scandisk on the somewhat obscure basis of dbx/dbt 
> filedates
> slightly in the future!  I assure you that the system clock on these 
> machines
> does not jitter five minutes, and is updated rather regularly, and in fact 
> is
> quite accurate (~20 seconds a month).  There are never any lost clusters 
> or
> crosslinks, just the date errors, randomly distributed over a few of the 
> 60
> files.  The errors are always much more than the 2 sec. difference between 
> NT
> and 9x that I dimly remember.
>
> Any thoughts?  If not, file it as one more for the Twilight Zone.
>
> -- 
>
> -Frank
>

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