Windws Mail CHK, LOG, and JRS Files?

[Steve Mavronis]

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate for a month now on a new PC. Suddenly
I've notice these files created to Windows Mail in my C:\Users\<profile
name> folder:

08/26/2007 06:16 PM 8,192 edb.chk
08/26/2007 06:16 PM 5,242,880 edb.log
08/25/2007 08:23 PM 5,242,880 edb00030.log
08/26/2007 06:15 PM 5,242,880 edb00031.log
08/22/2007 07:21 PM 5,242,880 edbres00001.jrs
08/22/2007 07:21 PM 5,242,880 edbres00002.jrs

Windows Mail is not set to do any logging (the logging checkboxes are not
checked) so I'm not sure why these files appeared and are still being
updated every time I use Windows Mail for my email account and newsgroups.
I'm worried something is damaged. Are they safe to delete and how do I stop
the logging of these 5mb files?

I did have an send error on 8/22/2007 replying to an email when Windows Mail
became corrupt I guess when I couldn't delete the email I replied from. I
had to reset Windows Mail (following an MVP's instructions) to recover my
email. Should completely delete my email account and newsgroup account and
somehow get Windows Mail to be like I set it up for the first time from a
clean slate? If so what is the best way to to this?

 

[Steve Mavronis]

Anyone know about this behavior? I'm not getting any error messages using
Windows Mail, but these files continue appearing/updating in my profile
folder:

08/26/2007 08:48 PM 5,242,880 edb00032.log
08/27/2007 05:33 PM 5,242,880 edb.log
08/27/2007 05:37 PM 8,192 edb.chk
08/27/2007 05:33 PM 2,113,536 tmp.edb
08/22/2007 07:21 PM 5,242,880 edbres00002.jrs
08/22/2007 07:21 PM 5,242,880 edbres00001.jrs

I just noticed compared to yesterday that the files edb00030.log and
edb00031.log disappeared and were replaced with edb00032.log?

Steve...

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Anyone know about this behavior? I'm not getting any error messages using
Windows Mail, but these files continue appearing/updating in my profile
folder:

08/26/2007 08:48 PM 5,242,880 edb00032.log
08/27/2007 05:33 PM 5,242,880 edb.log
08/27/2007 05:37 PM 8,192 edb.chk
08/27/2007 05:33 PM 2,113,536 tmp.edb
08/22/2007 07:21 PM 5,242,880 edbres00002.jrs
08/22/2007 07:21 PM 5,242,880 edbres00001.jrs

I just noticed compared to yesterday that the files edb00030.log and
edb00031.log disappeared and were replaced with edb00032.log?

I have those files, but not the same size. I imagine if they are deleted
they will be recreated, but I'm not going to try. If I wanted to try I'd
rename them first so that I could put them back if WinMail breaks.

 

[Steve Mavronis]

Yeah I'm afraid to mess with them. They kind of change by date and filename
numbering each day. I'm just curious what causes them in the first place.
Windows Mail worked perfectly for the first month of use before I had an
error with a message that wouldn't delete. Then I followed instructions to
delete my mailstore and it did a mail recovery.

By the way is it okay to delete the Recovered Messages folder after I moved
everything out of it into other folders? Also, is there a way to do a clean
reset of Windows Mail where you add your account the very first time, etc?
My email is also in my Comcast webmail, so they would be re-downloaded
anyway.

Here is what the are at the moment:

08/28/2007 08:27 PM 8,192 edb.chk
08/28/2007 09:00 PM 5,242,880 edb.log
08/28/2007 09:00 PM 5,242,880 edb00034.log
08/22/2007 07:21 PM 5,242,880 edbres00001.jrs
08/22/2007 07:21 PM 5,242,880 edbres00002.jrs

Steve

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Yeah I'm afraid to mess with them. They kind of change by date and
filename numbering each day. I'm just curious what causes them in the
first place. Windows Mail worked perfectly for the first month of use
before I had an error with a message that wouldn't delete. Then I followed
instructions to delete my mailstore and it did a mail recovery.

By the way is it okay to delete the Recovered Messages folder after I
moved everything out of it into other folders? Also, is there a way to do
a clean reset of Windows Mail where you add your account the very first
time, etc? My email is also in my Comcast webmail, so they would be
re-downloaded anyway.

Yes, I deleted the Recovered Messages folder without a problem.