PH> Yep. good thoughts thanks... I recall it was packing that was the more
PH> intensive, is that right?
PH> Could you happily purge more often than pack?
You could but it makes most sense to me anyway to run them both together maybe
once a week or so.
Purging will enforce the message limits on your bases (max messages and max
message age) by marking them deleted. It will also go through and remove any
private messages that are in the data files for users that no longer exist.
Its not as intensive as rebuilding the message bases, but its still a good
amount of work being done since its scanning through a lot of data.
Packing will then physically rebuild your message bases without all of the data
that purge marked to be deleted. It keeps the bases slim and the message
numbers in order, etc. It can sometimes fix errors as well.
... They say there's always one weirdo on the bus, but I couldn't find them! ---
Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/02/03 (Windows/64)
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