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February 1, 2006 at 05:09 AM
t8ny

MS Outlook creating message files in C:

by t8ny . Updated 19 years, 4 months ago

I am running WinXP all patched with latest updates with Outlook 2002 again all latest updates loaded. The problem I am having is the although everything is working as expected, I recently noticed that messages that I receive in Outlook, seem to create a file in the root of the c: drive, one file is created for each message received. These files can be deleted when Outlook is closed and there is no loss of any data from with in the Outlook inbox? I have searched my system and checked it for spyware, virus or other nasty software, but it is clean. the file names are s2lg.1 s2lg.2 etc and s3nc.1 s3nc.2 etc, on opening these files via wordpad you can see all details of the email including message gateways, headers, body of mail text etc, the file size also equals the size of the file in Outlook including attachment size.

Does anyone have any ideas why these files have started to appear

Thanks
Tony

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