Re: Deleting Empty Mail Directories

["Rijk van Geijtenbeek" <rijk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Op Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:42:22 +0100 schreef Mladen Pejaković  
<pejakm@xxxxxxxx>:

> On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:47:38 +0100, Paul Bartlett <bartlett@xxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
>
> > If this is a FAQ, I apologize.  Please direct me accordingly.  Opera
> > 9.23 under Windows 98.
> >
> > I do not use Opera as my primary mail agent, but I do use it daily (and
> > am using it more and more).  I tend not to save a lot of emails, so
> > when I delete them I wind up with a lot of empty directories in
> > C:\Program Files\Opera\mail\store\account1\yyyy\mm\dd for individual
> > days after I have received and deleted incoming mail.  It seems to me
> > that it is inefficient for the mail agent to handle bundles and bundles
> > of empty daily directories.  Is there any way of handling all these
> > empty directories short of closing Opera and deleting all these empty
> > directories "by hand" as I am doing now?  Thanks.
>
>
> Hi!
> I've been asking myself the same question, and I too am deleting those  
> empty directories aswell.

Opera 9.5 will remove them automatically. Though probably not the old ones  
from previous versions. I don't think these folders have a measurable  
impact on performance, but I'm glad tthis will get fixed anyway.

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                                                   Rijk van Geijtenbeek
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