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?
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...
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.
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
