Vista newsgroup BAF files in Recycle Bin

[Joe Ogiba]

My XP Recycle Bin has 27 BAK files from Outlook Express up to 12mb each and
was wondering why they are there. I think it might be done after Outlook
Express does an automatc compress to save space but this is the first time I
seen the files in my Recycle Bin. I dual boot XP and Vista RC2. Here is a
screenshot of my desktop showing the files.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21/jogiba/RecycleBin.jpg

 

[dirty old man]

Strange,
I have noticed this recently also.
Every time I compact files in OE (XP Pro) BAK files are created
in the Recycle Bin.
Only started about two weeks or so ago.
I made no changes to OE, and can't even find an option to create
backup files when compacting.
I am triple booting XP Pro x32, Vista x32 RC2 and Vista x64 RC2.
Wonder what happened?

dom

| My XP Recycle Bin has 27 BAK files from Outlook Express up to 12mb each and
| was wondering why they are there. I think it might be done after Outlook
| Express does an automatc compress to save space but this is the first time I
| seen the files in my Recycle Bin. I dual boot XP and Vista RC2. Here is a
| screenshot of my desktop showing the files.
| http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21/jogiba/RecycleBin.jpg
|
|

 

[Steve Cochran]

Its is due to a new update for OE. It has nothing to do with Vista.

See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 Those are backups of the OE folders that
are saved to the bin prior to compaction so if compaction fails, you don't
lose your messages as many have.

steve

 

[Jane C]

The same thing happens in XP Pro x64. Maybe a recent Update for OE in XP 32
bit now makes it do the same thing.

 

[dirty old man]

Thank you very much.

I compact the folders daily and this has been driving me nuts
trying to figure out what I had done

dom.


| Its is due to a new update for OE. It has nothing to do with Vista.
|
| See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 Those are backups of the OE folders that
| are saved to the bin prior to compaction so if compaction fails, you don't
| lose your messages as many have.
|
| steve
|
| | > My XP Recycle Bin has 27 BAK files from Outlook Express up to 12mb each
| > and was wondering why they are there. I think it might be done after
| > Outlook Express does an automatc compress to save space but this is the
| > first time I seen the files in my Recycle Bin. I dual boot XP and Vista
| > RC2. Here is a screenshot of my desktop showing the files.
| > http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21/jogiba/RecycleBin.jpg
| >
|

 

[Alan]

Joe,

I'm wondering if it's related to a recent OE patch. Last week, my OE did its
automatic compression of files, and afterwards I noticed all the original
*.DBX file, now renamed to *.BAK in my Recycle bin. That never happened
before.

Alan

 

[Steve Cochran]

See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

steve

Joe,

I'm wondering if it's related to a recent OE patch. Last week, my OE did
its automatic compression of files, and afterwards I noticed all the
original *.DBX file, now renamed to *.BAK in my Recycle bin. That never
happened before.

Alan