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   Moz Champion (Dan) to Peter.Potamus.the.Purple.Hippo@gmai   
   Re: Size of mail Trash file is 273 MB!   
   14 Feb 07 17:38:15   
   
   From: moz.champion@sympatico.ca   
      
   Peter.Potamus.the.Purple.Hippo@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Feb 14, 8:58 am, Ray K  wrote:   
   >> If I use Explorer to navigate to the .slt folder and below it to the   
   >> Mail/mail.optonline.net folder, I see the following files:   
   >>   
   >> Trash - 273,112 KB, even though the Trash folder is empty.   
   >> Inbox - 507,937 KB. I have 1078 messages, but even considering those   
   >> with embedded graphics, I can't imagine over 1/2 billion bytes.   
   >> Sent - 263,173 KB. Again, seems far too large for 930 items, most of   
   >> which are just text (no graphics or videos).   
   >>   
   >> Why isn't Trash file size zero? Is there a way to "compact" or otherwise   
   >   
   > did you look under File?   
   >   
   >> reduce the size of the Inbox and Sent files (without zipping them)?   
   >>   
   >> Thanks,   
   >>   
   >> Ray   
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