Subj : file size issues?
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Mike Tripp
Date : Tue Aug 03 2004 09:01 am

Hello Roy!

02 Aug 04 04:07, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Mike Tripp:

 MT>> The new version was only growing to swallow the new messages
 MT>> being appended, so there's no reason for them to be occupying
 MT>> more than the actual number of bytes required to do so.

 RT> Yup.  And the way things looked it wasn't ever gonna get any smaller.
 RT> I'm looking at something like 38M currently on that drive,  not so
 RT> much that I need to worry about an 8M file eating too much space but
 RT> still...

I was referring to your new replacement files here, not the original hosed 
version.  If you don't assign it any purge paramaters either, then there's no 
reason for SQPACK to ever shrink the file, and it should head straight back for 
8mb or however far it grows until it a data integrity issue stops one utility 
or another from being able to interact with it correctly any more.

If you want to keep areas uncapped, it might help to do a monthly SQREIDX or 
SQFIX event to catch little issues before they become big/fatal issues.

 RT> Makes sense.  This also explains some why TimED's undelete
 RT> function seems to grab *all* deleted messages,  I guess that was
 RT> just simpler to code,  or something.

Yep...and probably has the same pitfoils as UNDELETE in DOS.  "Deleted" data is 
overwritten by new data arriving...so some deleted msgs are unrecoverable. 
TimEd is probably just grabbing all of the puzzle pieces it can find to start 
with, figuring out which fit together, and then throwing away the few leftovers 
that don't seem to fit anywhere when done.

 RT> There are only a few areas like that here,  most are set for
 RT> specified
 RT> time frames,  typically 60 days.

SQUISH and SQPACK work together to maintain the quantity limit.  SQPACK alone 
does the limit by days.  SQPACK should =always= show some shrinkage on each 
daily run for areas with a days limit, unless the area is newer than the limit 
or the area has days without mail.

..\\ike

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