eliminate headers and bodies
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:20 pm
How can I adjust UE that the deleted headers and bodies are 100% eliminate or "shredded" after closing UE?
you can select all headers ctrl+a then invoke "purge headers&replies" from the context menu (per group of folder).
as to bodies edit menu->bodies and invoke the same option (all bodies will be removed).
on close there is no such option to empty everything, i think in the past there were newsreaders which didn't have any database so every time to started with empty state.
you can delete the "Newsgroups" and "Bodies" subdirectories (don't delete the "Settings" directory!!!) to remove the database, but then UE will redownload headers again since it senses when the directory is missing and reset header range then (so user won't be puzzled why older headers don't appear). if you want to do it through deleting the subdirectories but you don't want to redownload headers, create an empty group locate it through map.txt and keep its files somewhere, and then when after closing UE e.g. a bat file can overwrite every newsgroup directory with the empty newsgroup files (it will overwrite newsgroups files and then will start UE).