[Jim Birke]

Thanks for the info

For more on all this, see ? did you leave out a link?

Where, on my drive, are the messages stored?

Jim



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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The number 246 is the number of message headers you have downloaded; the
242 are the messages you have not "read" (i.e., clicked on and left
selected long enough for them to have been marked as read). To get the
rest, you have to change your NG settings so that you don't get just a
limited number of headers at a time (in Tools | Options | Read: News,
clear the check box for "Get (x) headers at a time." When you click on a
NG in OE, only the headers (subject lines) are downloaded; messages are
not downloaded until you choose to do so (there are settings for each NG,
however, that determine whether headers or messages are downloaded for
offline reading).

The messages that you download (by clicking on the header to read in the
preview pane or by double-clicking to open them) are indeed stored on your
HD. If you have the Size column displayed in OE, you'll see that they're
quite small (I'm seeing messages ranging from 1KB to 7KB in this NG at the
moment), and OE stores them collectively in folders so that they don't
take up too much space. If you have OE set to expire them after a certain
length of time (say, 30 days), then you won't be storing them
indefinitely.

For more on all this, see