[pmmail-list] time to clear trash - performance

[Jerry Prather]

On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 15:54:04 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:

>When I put stuff in the Trash [by just deleting a message I no longer
>want]:
> 1) I simply right-click on the trash folder. 
> 2) Select "Empty Trash" from the menu. 
>	And it seems to happen instantly!

Yep, that's correct for the one item case.  However, when
you get a significant number of items in your Trash, things
are different.  I typically only dump the trash every three
or four days.  I dumped it last evening and there are
already 114 messages in there.  

HTH,
Jerry

--
     Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
     when they do it from religious conviction." 

     -- Blaise Pascal, 17th-century French mathematician
        and religious philosopher



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