I think I have the same "hoarder" sickness regarding my computer files (including emails), and I often think I might read some of them someday so I just save them. I may need to learn about setting up a task scheduler, but that should not be too difficult.Īlso, I should take more care to move emails I care about to their special folders as soon as I have read them. Maybe I can set up the message rules to move emails automatically to an Archive folder when they are older than, say, 10 days, and then I can have the Delphi application process these files based on a daily schedule like my Cobian backup. It would be best to have this process somewhat automated, so I would not need to remember to do it on a regular basis. Then, if I wanted to, I could use my Delphi program to weed out duplicates, and I could also transfer the emails to a compressed folder. Once thus saved, I can simply erase most of the emails using the WLM application. I can save individual emails in TXT format or HTML, but a better option may be to copy all the emails to a location in the main Documents folder, which gets backed up regularly, and would be not indexed by the WLM application. I received a reply (although to a simpler question) on the Delphi forum, so it appears to be reasonably active and that's probably where I should go for more detailed discussion. However, when unzipped, MS Explorer shows the "From", "Subject", and "Date Received" information. That is an effective way to archive emails, but the non-descriptive titles are not helpful. I'm sure I have done it before, and I have some compressed folders that I have used to store emails up to about a year ago. I think the WLM crash may have been due to some other problems with the computer, and it is probably safe to move and delete files from the folders. There are other small and sometimes empty files. 0314 Mail: Zone_MailChk ERROR: (internat.cpp:237), failed with 0x800CCE054. 0314 Mail: Zone_MailChk ERROR: (internat.cpp:309), failed with 0x800CCE05 17bc Mail: Zone_MailChk ERROR: (booktree.cpp:8411), failed with 0x80040064 So apparently there is some sort of index that is manipulated when emails are moved in WLM and directly deleting or moving or copying the files creates problems. I found that WLM had created a new folder called ZAP(1) and the original ZAP folder contained only an email that I had converted to TXT. I did a restart and update and re-opened WLM, to find it still listed the duplicate emails, but when I tried to open them it produced an error. I thought I could have WLM properly reflect the changed folder by closing it and re-opening, but when I tried, it was borked. EML extensions), renaming to text to examine and back to EML, and it seems like the file names changed and also the date-time stamp. I messed around with the emails (which are all individual files with. However, the emails still remain in the listing of WLM. Now it should only go back 10 days (which is still 500-1000 emails).Īnyway, I decided to create an application with Borland Delphi, which can navigate to my email folder, which is:Ĭode: C:\Users\paul_000\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Peschoen (paul)I made a directory called "ZAP", and I went to my Junk E-mail folder which had about 10 emails in it (including several duplicates), and I was able to recurse through the folder and copy the duplicates to the ZAP folder and then delete them from the Junk folder. I also thought I had my email client set up to delete emails from the server after about a week, but I just checked and that was not so. When I have noticed the extra download happening, I have been able to shut down WLM and then access my Verizon account, where I can delete all but very recent emails from the server. But there seems to be no way to remove duplicates except manually. I know how to set up "Rules" that move emails with a certain sender or subject or date to another folder, and I do have folders for more important business and personal emails. I tend to keep almost everything and I usually save my Inbox emails every quarter to storage folders like "Inbox_2014_Q1", but I haven't done it for a while and now my Inbox has almost 12,000 emails since. Sometimes my Windows Live Mail application in Win8 seems to forget that it had already downloaded several months worth of emails from the Verizon server, so it creates duplicates and even triplicates of emails.
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