Hi, Rod.

RS>PE> Why did you send me this message about 5 times, in various
RS>PE> stages of construction?

RS>FM> I don't bloody well know, Paul! I noticed it after the packet had
RS>FM> gone ('cos I copy everything sent back into my incoming), but I'm
RS>FM> damned if I know how it happened. Certainly I did revisit that
RS>FM> message several times, but I don't know why what happened, happened.

RS>You will get the effect if you re-edit a message a few times, then dont
RS>shut down OLX properly. Each of the versions of a message end up in the

That's probably what happened. I think I was playing with something with
OLX open and I crashed Windows.

RS>OUTBOX on the disk as you do each edit, but OLX keeps the message status

Surprising! I would have thought it would replace an edited message over
the top of the old one. Obviously not. Certainly I didn't see these
multiple versions when I was going back to change it ('cos in that case,
OLX knows not to show them to me 'cos it's got it's stuff in memory, as
you say). And I had no reason to look when I went back sometime after
the crash to export replies before I sent the packet.

RS>on which ones were edited and replaced in memory. So if you dont exit
RS>OLX properly for whatever reason, the status is lost, and ALL the edits
RS>are treated as new messages not yet exported to the REP. So when you
RS>produce a REP, they all end up in there.

This is totally consistent with what's happened.

RS>Its no big deal if you know about it. If say a power flick causes the
RS>status to be lost, just load OLX, and manually delete the prior edits
RS>from the OUTBOX before you export the REP. Or if you managed to create
RS>the REP before you remember, you can delete them from it too, tho thats
RS>a bit slower.

Sure, and I'll check in future. This time, I noticed when I found them
all in the packet which I make from what I've just sent + what's just
come in.

Regards, FIM.

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