keep small article bodies in separate files

[hägar]

Ver. 2.6 has the new option "properties->general (disabled by default) to keep small article bodies in separate files".

Could you please clarify the sentence: " it is recommended if the user tends to leave downloads in the database without saving them for years, since then the program will be able to regenerate all downloaded article bodies even if all the rest of the files in the UE database "Bodies" directories have been lost. "

I have the exact situation here, ~220.000 files in the Bodies directory

Is it better for me to leave this option unselected or should I select it.

And do I read it corretly, that UE is able to reconstruct the message index from the files in the "0" to "F" directories if the cnt.dat file gets deleted?

Thank you

[alex]

if you don't need those files invoke edit menu->bodies, e.g. sort by date and delete all article bodies you don't need. such number of files will make UE start much slower, just because of reading directory contents (not even opening those files). you can even delete the whole bodies folder when UE is not running to get rid of them all in one blow if you don't need anything.

i don't know how useful the option is. the rationale is in the past there were many more users downloading text, so it had more sense to put all of them into a single file. when downloading binaries the percentage of small files may be negligible so why not to put them into separate files. as to me, i'm using my database for testing of new code (e.g. v2.6 had many changes in internals), during 5 years i lost those small files maybe 2 or 3 times, but i don't release such code so for normal user it should be all the same. restoring bodies process is pretty slow as well, 200K files will take maybe an hour since it needs to open every file and read the header.