WLM Generating Multiple 16MB Log files in storage directory

>version 8.0.0774.
>
>under
>C:\Documents and Settings\User NameLocal Settings\Application
>Data\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta\User Email\
>
>WLMD seams to create lots of unnessasery log files that are all identical
>and all 16,384 KB big, names included edb.log, edb00001.log, edb00002.log
>edb0000?.log etc, res1.log, res2.log res?.log etc. It aslo generates edb.chk
>and also edbtmp.log. I found the total of these files after using it for a
>week to be over 300 MB which is alot of wasted space. it also generates
>multiple sqmdata??.sqm files and multiple sqmnoopt??.sqm files which are
>small ~ 4 KB.
>
>Anyway to stop this from happening and any one else had this problem?
>
>Thanks
>

> Fairy_Princess <Fairy_Princess@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>

> >version 8.0.0774.
> >
> >under
> >C:\Documents and Settings\User NameLocal Settings\Application
> >Data\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta\User Email\
> >
> >WLMD seams to create lots of unnessasery log files that are all identical
> >and all 16,384 KB big, names included edb.log, edb00001.log, edb00002.log
> >edb0000?.log etc, res1.log, res2.log res?.log etc. It aslo generates edb.chk
> >and also edbtmp.log. I found the total of these files after using it for a
> >week to be over 300 MB which is alot of wasted space. it also generates
> >multiple sqmdata??.sqm files and multiple sqmnoopt??.sqm files which are
> >small ~ 4 KB.
> >
> >Anyway to stop this from happening and any one else had this problem?
> >
> >Thanks
> >

> Yes, that would be one of the things that beta software does. It would appear
> that it is creating these logs for debugging purposes during the beta, and doing
> it rather inefficiently.
> -steve
> --
> Stephen Boots
> MVP MSN.COM
> sboots@mvps.org
>

>
>
>"StephenB" wrote:
>

>> Fairy_Princess <Fairy_Princess@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>

>> >version 8.0.0774.
>> >
>> >under
>> >C:\Documents and Settings\User NameLocal Settings\Application
>> >Data\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta\User Email\
>> >
>> >WLMD seams to create lots of unnessasery log files that are all identical
>> >and all 16,384 KB big, names included edb.log, edb00001.log, edb00002.log
>> >edb0000?.log etc, res1.log, res2.log res?.log etc. It aslo generates edb.chk
>> >and also edbtmp.log. I found the total of these files after using it for a
>> >week to be over 300 MB which is alot of wasted space. it also generates
>> >multiple sqmdata??.sqm files and multiple sqmnoopt??.sqm files which are
>> >small ~ 4 KB.
>> >
>> >Anyway to stop this from happening and any one else had this problem?
>> >
>> >Thanks
>> >

>> Yes, that would be one of the things that beta software does. It would appear
>> that it is creating these logs for debugging purposes during the beta, and doing
>> it rather inefficiently.
>> -steve
>> --
>> Stephen Boots
>> MVP MSN.COM
>> sboots@mvps.org
>>

>
>
>
>Yeah i know it is a beta but i think inefficiently is a vast understatement.
>Nevermind, i can just delet them.

> Fairy_Princess <FairyPrincess@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>

>>"StephenB" wrote:
>>
>>Yeah i know it is a beta but i think inefficiently is a vast
>>understatement.
>>Nevermind, i can just delet them.

>
> You're right, it was an understatement. :-)
> -steve

>"StephenB" <sboots@mvps.org> wrote in message
>news:97o8a25q2vuvoctcvl82mjv7uuhik0of68@4ax.com.. .

>> Fairy_Princess <FairyPrincess@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>

>>>"StephenB" wrote:
>>>
>>>Yeah i know it is a beta but i think inefficiently is a vast
>>>understatement.
>>>Nevermind, i can just delet them.

>>
>> You're right, it was an understatement. :-)
>> -steve

>
>
>Do you think it's any more inefficient than the DBX format in OE 5/6?