[WEB4LIB] Files left by Microsoft Mail and other programs

[Alan Rowoth]

>What in the world are those little files that are being left in ever 
>growing numbers in my Eudora Attachment folder? They often have a 
>.vcf extension. When I open them up, they have a bunch of 
>gobbledy-gook and indicate that they are Microsoft Mail. Is there a 
>way to block or filter them straight into the trash? I get way too 
>much mail to have extra stuff hanging around.  TIA.
>

Go into your Eudora settings and look at attachments. Make sure that 
you have "trash attachments with messages" turned on. (and be sure 
that you don't save things that you want to keep in your attachments 
folder and then delete the messages that brought them there.)

A more primitive approach would be to save attachments to the desktop 
and deal with them manually on a day by day basis.

On the Mac side, you could write a simple applescript that would run 
on startup or shutdown to delete all the .vcf (or other) files from 
your attachments folder.

Another tip, I usually sort my downloads and In Progress folders by 
date so that I can instantly tell which files are old and which are 
new.

hope this helps.
Alan

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