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Robert Houghtaling - 31 Jan 2004 01:38 GMT

As an artist I visit many newsgroups that have binary files. Upon shutdown I
trash all the files and have run Tech tool pro to overwrite all free space.
However these files are still somewhere on my HD. If I open a newsgroup
(even in offline mode) and click on a previously read message it immediately
pops up. These things must be taking up a lot of room on the hard drive and
I would like to clear them.
Robert

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Richard Grieve Mac MVP - 31 Jan 2004 10:05 GMT

> As an artist I visit many newsgroups that have binary files. Upon shutdown I
> trash all the files and have run Tech tool pro to overwrite all free space.
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> I would like to clear them.
> Robert

Are you using Mac OE as your newsreader, or another program altogether? If
it's the former, the Database file within your Identities folder will
increase in size and store the message cache that you are referring to.

You can clear out the messages and reduce the size of this file by
performing a complex rebuild...

<http://techiegrim.webhop.net/keyboard/oe5_database.html>

Note that this will remove all of your newsgroup subs, and you will have to
download new headers again.

HTH,

Ricky

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Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / January 2004

Newsgroup binaries