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Mike Etherington

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Jun 15, 2008, 6:06:34 AM6/15/08
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Hi,
I'm using Copernic Desktop Search (CDS2.18) to help find things. Great
product but for emails it find 25,000+ spam in the JUNK folder.

They are dated from several years ago to several years in the future!

Clearly I see zero in TB but discovered that I seem to have two message
directories, one named as expected (effingpot.com) and one called
effingpot.com-1" with "-1" added at the end, which is the one in use.

I don't know how I ended up with two directories but maybe this other
directory is where these spams are lurking? Any suggestions how to find
and remove them without losing any real mail?
Thanks
Mike


Nir

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Jun 15, 2008, 6:22:21 AM6/15/08
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Mike Etherington wrote, On 15/06/08 15:36:

> Hi,
> I'm using Copernic Desktop Search (CDS2.18) to help find things. Great
> product but for emails it find 25,000+ spam in the JUNK folder.
>
> They are dated from several years ago to several years in the future!
>
> Clearly I see zero in TB but discovered that I seem to have two message
> directories, one named as expected (effingpot.com) and one called
> effingpot.com-1" with "-1" added at the end, which is the one in use.


It only happens when you delete an existing account from TB account
manager and create same account again .
'effingpot.com' folder was created for that account when for the first
time you had created that account in TB .
For every subsequent attempt to recreate same account will be ended up
by creating 'effingpot.com-n' folder in profile folder without deleting
previous folder of that account .

In both cases you should find a file named Junk ( without any extension
in file name ) inside both folder . Look at the size/content of both
files to understand which file was actually scanned by that Desktop
search app .
Report about your findings .

Mike Etherington

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Jun 15, 2008, 6:37:43 AM6/15/08
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Thanks, both have a Junk file of 2KB.

Mike Etherington

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Jun 17, 2008, 3:23:11 AM6/17/08
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I can see both Junk files and both seem to be 2K in size.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Mike

Nir

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Jun 17, 2008, 12:23:03 PM6/17/08
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Mike Etherington wrote, On 17/06/08 12:53:

> I can see both Junk files and both seem to be 2K in size.
> Any suggestions?

Does 'Copernic Desktop Search' gives any clue about where from it is
getting those mails ?
Do you have any other Junk file in TB profile folder ?

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