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Subject: Re: Why do I get files in my shadow directory? From: Terry Weissman <weissman@tellme.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 07:32:24 -0700 David Davidson wrote: > > Why is it that even with shadow db switched off, I still get a file created > in my shadow directory for every bug created? Can I just delete these? I guess I overused the word "shadow". The shadow directory has nothing to do with the shadowdb. The shadow directory is used by the "old-style" email system. It keeps a plaintext version of each bug. Whenever the system thinks a bug may have been changed, it regenerates a plaintext version and diffs it against the version in the shadow directory. If they are different, the diffs are emailed out and the version in the shadow directory is updated. Deleting things from the shadow directory will just cause a bunch of "new bug created" emails to eventually happen, and the files will be recreated. I suggest you just leave it alone. ===