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Old April 7th 18, 01:40 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default strange files on my computer

On Fri, 06 Apr 2018 10:17:41 -0400, Paul
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So they weren't really committed and may have been
a transient from your eM Client. Maybe something
was doing a "conversion", and it crashed or something,
leaving debris behind ?

But now that CHKDSK has removed them, the only
conclusion now is, that you were hallucinating :-)
That's what the computer said.

If could be that your eM Client copied a .edb file
into your Downloads to do some work, and that
cruft is produced by the database engine that
tried to access/query the database. That would be
my guess why such files would be around.

How at least some email clients work, is they
carry out a protocol with a running copy of the
old client, and they ask the program to send them
a .mbox for each email message in the database.
That scheme is supposed to avoid the need for
one program to be "snooping" directly into the
database format of the other program. Importation
at the message-by-message level, avoids having
to do database work.

Paul



I really appreciate you taking some time to help me try to figure this
out, Paul. Sometimes trying to explain things brings new realizations
and clarity. You were a big help. Anyhow, I guess the Win-7 system is
OK, and I will just delete those files. I had already changed the file
names to originalname.bak with no apparent changes in system
behavior.

-dan z-


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