Re: Email Mac

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 45555
interpreted = N
texte = Mike,On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 03:26 AM, Michael Davis wrote:[snip]> Speaking of this problems with Emailer on OS X... I've got too many files > in my EmailCompleted folder. rm * will not delete them. It reports /bin/ > rm: Argument list too long. > How do I delete all these files?do an ls to see what the filenames begin with, then you have the fun of doing (for example) rm 1023* -f rm 1024* -f rm 1025* -fand so on. I find that if you have a full range of numbers from one to nine as the last digit, you usually have to remove about 6 of them before you can drop a number rm 102* -fto get the rest of them.Best bet is to create a trigger to clean up that folder. I moved from MacOS 9.x to Linux and never thought about this until 1 month later when I had about 70,000 or so files in there :)> MikeDale ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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Mike,On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 03:26 AM, Michael Davis wrote:[snip]> Speaking of this problems with Emailer on OS X... I've got too many files > in my EmailCompleted folder. rm * will not delete them. It reports /bin/ > rm: Argument list too long. > How do I delete all these files?do an ls to see what the filenames begin with, then you have the fun of doing (for example) rm 1023* -f rm 1024* -f rm 1025* -fand so on. I find that if you have a full range of numbers from one to nine as the last digit, you usually have to remove about 6 of them before you can drop a number rm 102* -fto get the rest of them.Best bet is to create a trigger to clean up that folder. I moved from MacOS 9.x to Linux and never thought about this until 1 month later when I had about 70,000 or so files in there :)> MikeDale ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ dale's stuff

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