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How do I clear up these files that are stored in my mdbdata folder and what are these files?

I am running out of disk space on my hard drive that has my information store located and I have done the eseutil to bring down the size of the information store and that helped out. I also deleted a few large mailboxes and it freed up a lot of white space on the database which I haven't seen the store increase for the last 3 days but for some reason my disk space is still going down and I am not sure if it has to do with the txt files in my mdbdata folder. What is the purpose of these files and how do I get rid of them.

Note: I performed a eseutil on 6/28/09 and there are txt files in the mdbdata that have dates before the  6/28/08 date can I delete those manually please see bmp attachment to view the files
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Check the Knowlegebase article....http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260532 which explains...what is IFS files...Go ahead stop the information store service & then manually delete them....
Never directly delete the E00 logs because these are your transaction logs of the databases in Exchange 2003 server,

#Dismount all the stores from Microsoft Exchange System Manager

#Stop the Exchange Information Store service from services window

#Delete the IFS files however it would been better if we had an external USB pen drive to save these E00 files then delete them.

Those are DB log files. Do not just delete those.

Create a full Exchange backup. This should flush those log files.
You can use the NTBACKUP to take a backup of the information stores .
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To use the Backup Wizard to perform an online backup of your Exchange Server computers, follow these steps:
Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Backup. Or, simply type ntbackup at the command prompt.
In the What to Back Up dialog box, select Back up selected files, drives, or network data, and then click Next. This initiates an online backup.
In the Items to Back Up dialog box, expand the Exchange Server tree, select any or all Exchange Server computers in the organization that you want to back up, and then click Next.

NOTE: You are not able to select the dimmed box next to the words "Microsoft Exchange." You must double-click Microsoft Exchange or click the plus sign (+) to expand the Exchange Server tree. You can expand the tree down to the directory or information store for any server.
Verify that the file listed in the Backup media or file name box is the file to which you want to back up the data, and then click Next.
Click Finish to proceed with the backup.

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This doesn't help me. I need to find out how I can delete these .txt files like I mentioned on my question section that I did a eseutil on 6/28/09 so can I delete those txt files that have a date stamp of 6/27/09 or less. I thought I saw an article that said you didn't need those files that are dated before you did a eseutil on the information store. I have almost 40 GB of txt files that are date stamped before 06/28/09.
They are NOT txt files.You might want to adjust the explorer views when dealing with servers.
What do you mean, "eseutil"? Offline defrag, repair?

You could dismount all stores, use eseutil /mh (run against each database in this storage group) to make sure they are in a clean shutdown state. Then it should be safe to delete most older logfiles (don't do too much, just to be safe I'd keep a few days). Another good idea is to just move the files before you delete them, just in case you missed something.

Whatever you do, create this full backup before you do anything. And do regular backups afterwards, so this doesn't happen again.
See these txt files are your actual exchange transaction log files .... I repeat again never delete these txt files when the stores are up & running this will make you databases get into a dirty-shutdown state.
Go ahead & follow my previous backup methods like dismounting the databases from Exchange System Manager & then moving these txt file which are logs files to a network drive or an external large USB drive or attach internal hard-disk of atleast 100 GB free space & then delete the logs.
My best advice would be to perform a ntbackup & backup the exchange databases as I have posted earlier.......


"I repeat again never delete these txt files when the stores are up & running this will make you databases get into a dirty-shutdown state"

This statement is not necessarily true unless he deletes ALL log files. It really depends, and deleting older log files can be OK, but you need to know what you are doing, and in this case I may doubt that (no offense). I do agree with the statement that in any case creating a backup first is HIGHLY recommended and necessary.
okay let me rephrase my question: I did a eseutil which is the offline defrag on 6/28/09 which still did not clear up enough disk space. Is there a way that I can delete those E00 files that are dated earlier than 06/28/09 which is the day that I an the eseutil program? Like I said I thought I saw an article that said that when you run the eseutil program that the transaction logs prior to the date you ran the eseutil program are no longer needed so I either want to delete them if it is possible.
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If I got this correct I would back up my mdbdata folder first and then tonight I would dismount the priv1 and public store then run a eseutil only on my priv1 store to make sure that the database is in a clean shutdown state. I would then move the transaction logs date in april and may to a different network. Once I am done copying those files to a different network folder then I would deletet those files and then reboot my server so everything can start automatically like mounting the stores.

Wonk the Sane- Is there any complexed step that I am missing since you mentioned that it really depends on deleting these older log files and you need to know what you are doing. If there is a process that you do that you didn't mention your suggestion would be greatly aprreciated.
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