-=> Quoting Jean Parrot to Dan Ceppa <=-
 
 DC> As it is, what I do does work for me.  And, your solution 
 DC> works for you.  That, of course, is the true bottom lines.  

 JP> That did it ! Listen.. After U/Ling my .rep today, they all
 JP> went up fine to Doc's Place, I went back into BW and went
 JP> through the motions of deleting the mail and guess what ? It
 JP> crunged the replies. So, my procedure is the right one. Thanks
 JP> to an observant eye, I remembered that this is when that
 JP> happened before and NOT doing it now, saves my precious
 JP> replies. Since I deviated from that procedure, I have not had a
 JP> crunged packet again, in the last week or so.

 JP> We are having fun. Even if I see no reason why this deleting
 JP> the mail would damage the replies. Things happen. ;-)

 Jean

 It has been some time since I used 2.12 so I have forgotten the way it
 does all of it's functions, and some of the different settings it may
 have.

 Anyway I think I can now tell you why but not how your packets are
 getting crunged.

 In 2.30 (not sure about 2.12) you have a choice of when the reply
 packet gets closed.  I can be when the packet you are reading is closed
 or it can be when you close BW.  If it is not closed until you close
 BW then deleting the mail packet must be doing something to the open
 reply packet.  I do not know all the functions that take place behind
 the scene, but it may have something to do with closing or deleting
 the temp work dir that is created when you open a mail packet.

 I guess I am a packrat as I have quite a few old mail packets still in
 the download dir.  I only delete some of the old ones when BW starts
 getting slow to show the list of packets to open.  I would guess I have
 over 100 old mail packets still in the dir that show up when I go to
 open mail packets.  I have packets from 3 different BBS's and they are
 sorted by BBS so I have to page down a few times to get to the next
 BBS.

... Ben    

... I'm not a thief.  I'm a creative acquisition specialist.
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