>No, you did nothing wrong. When Yarn was upgraded to ver .90, the newsbase
>format was changed from using several small files, to have one large news.dat
>file. The reasoning behind it was to (eventually) allow for "live" imports and
>expires while Yarn was running in another session.
>
>In theory, as news accumulates and expires the NEWS.DAT file should stablize
>in size, resulting in a consistently sized news database. For some systems,
>this results in a smooth flowing database, where the news.dat file stabalizes
>to the largest size it needs to be, holding empty space from an expire until
>the next import. (Mine works like this, I assume Chin's, and most systems
>where people have space and whatnot ;-) ) However, as seen from the current
>threads, many people don't like this because it makes it diffucult to reclaim
>free space in a crunch.
FWIW, I am running Yarn95 (Ver. 0.90), and my \Yarn directory is on my D
drive. I have not seen my news.dat file become very large. I import
newsgroup articles every day. However, I do run "expire -r" at least every
other day, once I have saved anything to disk (in folders). Currently, my
news.dat file is about 15KB, and I have ~31 MB free on the D drive. Does
this all make a difference?
Just curious...
Debra Walker
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Debra Walker
Chicago, IL
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