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Bug 181058
Opened 22 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
news directories have unnecessary? <newsgroupname>.dat files
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(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)
MailNews Core
Filters
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My news directory has a stupid .dat file along the .msf file. the .dat file only contains the following info: version="8" logging="no" There's one [newsgroupname.dat] file for each newsgroup. fx netscape.public.dev.xul.dat could we wait and create the .dat file ONLY if needed!
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Comment 2•18 years ago
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fixed? I don't see .dat for all my newsgroups
Assignee: sspitzer → nobody
Severity: normal → minor
QA Contact: laurel → filters
Comment 3•17 years ago
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Tb 2.0.0.6 has these msgFilterRules.dat in all news server group folders with the cited two fields by default. These are a waste of HDD space being 27 bytes claiming a 4 KB cluster.
Comment 4•17 years ago
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(In reply to comment #3) > Tb 2.0.0.6 has these msgFilterRules.dat in all news server group folders with > the cited two fields by default. These are a waste of HDD space being 27 bytes > claiming a 4 KB cluster. perhaps related to bug 375292? do the files have recent dates? I think I see these files only for groups that have filters.
Comment 5•17 years ago
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The msgFilterRules.dat files are showing in all 6 of my news accounts. Only two accounts have filters set. That implies that the files are created by default. I see no reason for that action until a filter is actually created. The files exist in both profiles. All were created on 08/09/2007, the date I created the second profile and worked to restore the primary profile. Even the accounts with filters do not have any data in the files other than version="8" logging="no" OS is Windows ME. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375292 is a Linux bug if I read it right.
Comment 6•16 years ago
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Comment 7•16 years ago
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Comment on attachment 322874 [details]
Screenshot of news account files list
Only the *.prerelease group has a filter to hide Hendrix postings. All other group.dat and msgFilterRules.dat are default _Empty_Rule_ files.
Updated•16 years ago
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Flags: wanted-thunderbird3?
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Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
Comment 8•2 years ago
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still see this
Severity: minor → S4
Summary: news directories are flooded with newsgroupname.dat files → news directories have unnecessary? <newsgroupname>.dat files
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