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BAK Files

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What is a bak file? I have found alot of them with all my email folders in my recycle bin and need to know whether I should delete them or not.

Name: orbital
Date: March 12, 2007 at 01:02:21 Pacific

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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/BAK...

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Name: Lesley
Date: March 12, 2007 at 03:47:35 Pacific

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Brackenbury Those Files appear in the Bin after OE has done its compressing. Each time it does that it makes Backups and then discards the previous set of Backups If all is well with your OE then you can Delete them each time Lesley

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