With an Address Book open, select (CTRL+A for all) the addresses you want (this caught me out at first)

AddressBook | Export

 either Tagged or Tab Delimited

the reverse is

AddressBook | Import 

 either Tagged or Tab Delimited

I find that Tab Delimited gives more scope to "play" YMMV

Could someone remind me which files in my PMail directory are junk, ie what types are junk? For example, those ending in $$$ are junk, I believe - what others?

See Han's page for compleat list

 http://www.vandenbogaerde.net/pegasusmail/pf_pmfiles.html

I've been using a script for years to get rid of these and other files from Pegasus Mail directories. It's a FORTH script which I unfortunately can not share because it needs a proprietary application to run (nnCron by Nicholas Nemtsev). Anyway, it scans Pegasus Mail directories after some files and folders, some locally, some recursively:

1. *.$$$ starting from C:\PMAIL recursively
2. *.TOP starting from C:\PMAIL recursively
3. *.CNM starting from C:\PMAIL\MAIL recursively, 0-byte files only
4. *.PMW starting from C:\PMAIL\MAIL recursively, 0-byte files only
5. *.PMX starting from C:\PMAIL\MAIL recursively, 0-byte files only
6. *.PNX starting from C:\PMAIL\MAIL recursively, 0-byte files only
7. C:\PMAIL\MAIL\user\TCPLOGS (wiped using Sysinternals' sdelete.exe -s -a

Thanks Shades

Thanks, Euler

YW, Tom. Just a note: I can't remember why I included the .TOP extension in my script, probably some temporary file created by a third-party application. And maybe I should port it to a batch file so every one could use it, maybe in association with Windows' Task Scheduler. I'm wondering if Shades would help on that. [;)]

Euler, Tom, et. al. -- Once upon a time, when "Selective mail download" was invoked for multiple identities, Pegasus Mail created the *.TOP file in the [ User ] directory as a temporary file holding the aggregated list of the first line of each mail header as reported by the mail server.  

That, then, generated the mail list output window for further user action.  

Upon closing that window or selectively downloading the server-held mail as desired, the .TOP file was deleted.  If PMail crashed or was closed in some other disorderly manner, the .TOP file would still be there until selective mail download was once again invoked.   

Somewhere along the way this protocol disappeared.  Unknown to me where PMail now holds this information.  As I've been a PMail user since 1990-91, quite a bit has "come and gone", I'm afraid.  

As far as I'm aware, Han's pf_pmfiles.html page has never included a reference to *.TOP.  Understandable that it wouldn't have, since even as exhaustively thorough as Han has been, it's a file which never would have come to anyone's attention in the ordinary course of events. 

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Thanks for sharing this information with us, Christopher. I know I had a reason to include the .TOP extension but just couldn't remember why. Anyway, it is good to know I haven't gone completely nuts yet.[8-|]

Nah, from what I see I think you've got a ways to go there, Euler.  

Now that I see that I haven't posted since February 2017 (merely lurking), I realize that I have another issue or two to weigh in on.  

Nothing current, really, just a "where did this come from - ?" comment or two.  And a rousing endorsement of idw / Michael's April 14th  [Rant Begin] . . . [Rant End] post, with an anecdote or two of my own which probably has contributed to my being a place or two ahead of you in the "going completely nuts" queue. 

If in the ful(l)ness of time I can find Brian F.'s year or two ago post about copying / moving entries in the PMail address book . . . which I've saved "somewhere" . . .   

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Hi

I use a more general batch to clear all those pesky reminants that appear, happy to share, this version cleans all the file types I don't want across many Drives (Z: Y: X: H: G: F: D: C: could be more or less)

That's the easy part, Zero byte files are harder, not to remove or find but to decide "Which" ones you need and which can go, a quick scan here shows these zero byte files

bearhtml.log
CyberArk.PMI
GLOSSARY.PM
mapipm.log
newsmail.log
newsmail2.log
newspost.log
pmical.log
pmvcard.log
rssmail.log
SpamHalt.PMI
virscan.log
virscan.rep
pmical.log
pmicaladm.log
rssmail.log

in my mail dir(s) all these are (for the most part) used and/or needed

so a little care is needed "if" you want to automate removing zero byte files, probably the best route is pipe a list to a txt file, than decide, from my list I could exclude *.log, *.pmi & *.rep, some log's will (re)build when required but some need a blank to work