Delete a newsgroup and all files related to it?

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Is there a way to delete a newgroup under Windows Mail, along
with all files associated with it, all incomplete download requests,
and so on?

On my 64-bit Vista machine, I subscribed to newsgroup
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings and told it to download all
headers for that newsgroup - my usual start to an unknown
newsgroup. WinMail.exe soon took up 6 GB of the 8 GB
of memory on that machine, even though it wasn't able to
download all of the 2403156 headers available for that
newsgroup from the newsgroups server I used before the
server decided not to let me have any more today.

Is there any way I can just delete that newsgroup, along
with any incomplete download requests for it, and any files
stored for that newsgroup? The newsgroup is obviously
too large for Windows Mail to handle it properly without
more memory than this machine will handle, so I want to tell
it to stop trying.

Robert Miles
 
Is there a way to delete a newgroup under Windows Mail, along
with all files associated with it, all incomplete download requests,
and so on?

On my 64-bit Vista machine, I subscribed to newsgroup
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings and told it to download all
headers for that newsgroup - my usual start to an unknown
newsgroup. WinMail.exe soon took up 6 GB of the 8 GB
of memory on that machine, even though it wasn't able to
download all of the 2403156 headers available for that
newsgroup from the newsgroups server I used before the
server decided not to let me have any more today.

Is there any way I can just delete that newsgroup, along
with any incomplete download requests for it, and any files
stored for that newsgroup? The newsgroup is obviously
too large for Windows Mail to handle it properly without
more memory than this machine will handle, so I want to tell
it to stop trying.

Robert Miles
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Hi Robert, unsubscribe as advised, (ensure that you do not have send and
receive at start up selected on the General tab of Options), then go to your
message store, get the path from tools>options>advanced tab>maintenance
button, select and copy the path, cancel out of there.
Close WM.
Paste the path to Start>Run.
Find and delete that newsgroup, and any others, that you are no longer
subscribed to.
Close Windows Explorer.
Open WM go back to the Maintenance button and set the Compact check number
to 1, close WM and let it compact the store.
Empty the Recycle bin.
Open WM and restore the Compact count to 100, or what you had it set to
previously.
Hopefully that should recover the space.
Defrag might be needed?

When subscribing to a new newsgroup, especially one that might have
thousands of messages, always first set WM to get as low a number of headers
as possible on the Read tab of options (50).
Subscribe to the newsgroup and use the GoTo button.
When in the new newsgroup, use Get Next headers on the Tools menu, to go
back as far as you wish, then right click the newsgroup and do "catch up".
Then set the newsgroups Sync' setting to all messages.
Go back to the Read tab and remove the check from Get 50 headers.
 
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