I'm not sure it's doing anything though in this instance, since my drive space has been 31.5gb free for about an hour and a half. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Dave Arnold [mailto:darnold@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:58 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Deleting Ex2k BadMail directory We run a batch file that changes to the badmail dir, then del *.* /q. This is scheduled to run weekly from the AT scheduler. Works well. Dave Arnold Mercury Data Group, Inc. (907) 274-1510 x19 -----Original Message----- From: John Twilley [mailto:John.Twilley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:31 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Deleting Ex2k BadMail directory We tried the del *.* but it freaked out. We used the rm.exe command (ported from unix) and it worked FAST. (Windows Resource Kit) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft. com:80/support/kb/articles/Q120/7/16.ASP <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft .com:80/support/kb/articles/Q120/7/16.ASP&NoWebContent=1> &NoWebContent=1 _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Broucinek Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:22 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Deleting Ex2k BadMail directory Go to the command line set your default into the directory and delete the contents (del *.*) . If you try from explorer, it will crash. It cannot handle the amount of messages that appear there. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ryan <mailto:rlambert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Lambert To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 1:45 PM Subject: [THIN] Deleting Ex2k BadMail directory Anyone have a guide on flushing this? I got a customer with over 1 million items. -- Ryan Lambert, MCP, CCA Network Engineer NetSource 1242 East 49th Street Ste. 0503-B, Third Floor Cleveland, OH 44114 Phone/Fax: 216-373-2757 http://www.netsourceit.com/