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Don't Panic! · 01-22-05, 10:35 AM

Fellow MS MVP, Mobile Devices Sven had this to say about them on the microsoft.public.pocketpc newsgroup back in 2001;

Actually I dug around some more. I can drag a .mpb file to my desktop and
open it with notepad. They contain the text of a message, which I can find
in my inbox, but no header information. That tells me there is some other
place the header info is kept with a reference to the bodies in .mpbs. I
have about a dozen .mpbs that have a 0 byte size and have nothing in them. A
dozen is just about the discrepancies between the number of messages I show
in my inbox(s) and the number of files in the messaging folder. Hmm, orphan
mistakes? I haven't summoned up the garbanzos to delete the 0 byte files
out of there yet. I suppose I will sooner or later. Just don't want to
confuse an important system db unneccesarily

Marc Zimmerman another MS MVP said Don't deltete them back in 2002.

I've safely removed everything out of messaging in the past so I'm sticking with deleting them is fine. Pretty cool that you can open them on your desktop though. I didn't know that.

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Don't Panic! Aximsite Hall of Fame Addicted Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Boston, MA USA Posts: 8,173 Thanked 12 Times in 12 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 4	Fellow MS MVP, Mobile Devices Sven had this to say about them on the microsoft.public.pocketpc newsgroup back in 2001; Actually I dug around some more. I can drag a .mpb file to my desktop and open it with notepad. They contain the text of a message, which I can find in my inbox, but no header information. That tells me there is some other place the header info is kept with a reference to the bodies in .mpbs. I have about a dozen .mpbs that have a 0 byte size and have nothing in them. A dozen is just about the discrepancies between the number of messages I show in my inbox(s) and the number of files in the messaging folder. Hmm, orphan mistakes? I haven't summoned up the garbanzos to delete the 0 byte files out of there yet. I suppose I will sooner or later. Just don't want to confuse an important system db unneccesarily Marc Zimmerman another MS MVP said Don't deltete them back in 2002. I've safely removed everything out of messaging in the past so I'm sticking with deleting them is fine. Pretty cool that you can open them on your desktop though. I didn't know that. __________________ Don't Panic! Bobby 42 Soft-reset is our Friend To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Last edited by Don't Panic!; 01-22-05 at 10:38 AM.