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Re: Mulitple *.dat files

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Am 11.04.2021 um 13:50 schrieb Andy Burns:
> Torsten Villnow wrote:
> 
>> I have a weird problem with the files in my Thunderbird newsgroup 
>> folder. Since I subscribed to the new Mozilla groups within alt.* (the 
>> first ones from alt.* which I subscribed to) their dat-files get 
>> duplicated over and over as follows:
>>
>> alt.comp.software.firefox.dat
>> alt.comp.software.firefox-1.dat
>> alt.comp.software.firefox-2.dat
> 
> I've just looked in the sub-folders under [profile]\news\ corresponding 
> to my five news servers, and none of the have "-1.dat" files in them, 
> several of the news servers have alt.* groups, not that I can see a 
> reason that should be related.

So it may be caused by using the mentioned news server.

> It sounds credible that dropbox has something to do with the suffixes.
> 
> What do the created/modified dates of the file show?

They are generated while displaying one of these alt-groups, obviously 
only when new posts get downloaded, as I just observed with your post.

-- 
Torsten Villnow

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Mulitple *.dat files Torsten Villnow <t.villnow@gmail.com> - 2021-04-11 12:47 +0200
  Re: Mulitple *.dat files Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-04-11 12:50 +0100
    Re: Mulitple *.dat files Torsten Villnow <t.villnow@gmail.com> - 2021-04-11 16:31 +0200
  Re: Mulitple *.dat files Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-04-11 15:42 +0100
  Re: Mulitple *.dat files dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not> - 2021-04-11 19:36 +0200
  Re: Mulitple *.dat files Torsten Villnow <t.villnow@gmail.com> - 2021-04-12 15:12 +0200

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