Hi, I have installed on my Windows XP PC an old Mercury version

(4.01). I want to upgrade to 4.62 version but I have another problem.

One

of Mercury mailbox file is about 2Gb and I noticed that Mercury 4.01

doesn't work correctly. So I tried to deleted mail from Outlook but the

folder doesn't change size. How can I do ?

Install Pegasus Mail on the Mercury/32 server using the same mailbox structure as Mercury/32.   That is if Mercury/32 is use c:\mercury\mail\~n in Configuration | Mercury core "Local mailbox directory path" then Pegasus Mail should be installed to c:\pmail and use c:\mercury\mail when asked for the directory.

You can now access the folders and compress the folder to remove all deleted space.  FWIW, if you install WinPMail Public beta 1 it comes with a utility called mbxmaint.exe that can do this for any mailbox directory you specify.

Hi, I have installed on my Windows XP PC an old Mercury version (4.01). I want to upgrade to 4.62 version but I have another problem.

One of Mercury mailbox file is about 2Gb and I noticed that Mercury 4.01 doesn't work correctly. So I tried to deleted mail from Outlook but the folder doesn't change size. How can I do ?

Another thing is that I want to move Mercury and Mercury mailbox folder file from disk C: to disk D without lose configuration and other mailbox.I can I do it?

Is better to do it before upgrade ?

Thanks in advanced. Davide

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Another thing is that I want to move Mercury and Mercury mailbox folder file from disk C: to disk D without lose configuration and other mailbox.I can I do it?

Is better to do it before upgrade ?

Thanks in advanced. Davide

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Hi Davide,

I would make the following steps:

1. Stop Mercury

2. Copy (xcopy) (don't move) the entire Mercury directory (from C:\Mercury) with all subdirs to D:\Mercury

    (Original location remain untouched as backup...)

3. in D:\Mercury search all *.ini and *.mer file where the string "C:\Mercury" to find is.
   ( at my home installation is this files are:   mercury.ini, spamhalter.ini, daemon.ini and windows.mer )

4. in (new) D:\Mercury directory  search-and-replace with notepad the C:\Mercury string to D:\Mercury

5. make the Upgrade with Mercury/32 4.62 on a new location (D:\Mercury)

I hope this help

Peter