It seems to me that it would be an easy fix to just PERMANENTLY delete
all traces of messages that a user has deleted (why generate zero byte entries
anyway when messages are deleted?), either when the user deletes the message
or when the message store is compacted.
When I have to CONFIRM that I want items PERMANENTLY deleted, I
would think that they were actually COMPLETELY gone without any traces or residue.
"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message news:uMlxJ0ZeHHA.3648@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>I think you're looking at the Achilles Heel of the new file system.
> It spawns lots of zero byte messages which eventually wind up
> corrupting the database.
>
> Gary VanderMolen
>
> "Cal Bear '66" <xxx@xxx.org> wrote in message news
6646D28-6751-4C77-B527-EE0BF9D687EC@microsoft.com...
> I went into Windows Explorer to investigate the Windows Mail message store
> and I saw zero size entries seemingly for every message I have ever sent or received
> and then DELETED for both the mail and newsgroups.
>
> Why, even though these messages have been deleted and the message store has been
> compacted numerous times, are these zero byte files retained?
>
> Might this have something to do with all the numerous Windows Mail problems?