Can i delete old bayes files?

["Ben @ Wylie" <sa...@benwylie.co.uk>]

My F:\Documents and Settings\User\.spamassassin folder contains my bayes
files. I back this whole folder up regularly.
Am I right in thinking that if I have backed it up already, I can delete all
the .expire files and all old_ files?
Also, I don't use auto-whitelist, so can I delete that file?
Also, the user_prefs file is empty because I manage settings elsewhere, can
I get rid of this or is it required to have a file there?

Here is the contents of my .spamassassin folder:

17/12/2004  20:33            24,576 auto-whitelist
29/03/2005  13:00            81,075 bayes_journal
29/03/2005  00:11         5,218,304 bayes_seen
29/03/2005  00:11        10,231,808 bayes_toks
04/02/2005  01:19            24,576 bayes_toks.expire19256
02/09/2004  12:01         5,316,608 bayes_toks.expire33656
02/09/2004  12:06         2,523,136 bayes_toks.expire34400
03/09/2004  00:18         2,965,504 bayes_toks.expire38000
14/03/2005  05:38         3,211,264 bayes_toks.expire39680
30/12/2004  16:01         2,760,704 bayes_toks.expire41472
23/08/2004  23:56         1,343,488 old_bayes_seen
23/08/2004  23:56         2,686,976 old_bayes_toks
05/08/2004  15:09         5,251,072 old_bayes_toks.expire3800
30/01/2004  01:41             1,193 user_prefs

Basically I think the only files I need to keep here are:
Bayes_journal
Bayes_seen
Bayes_toks

Is this correct?
Also, I have increased the number of tokens bayes can keep, is there a way
to reintroduce expired tokens?

Thanks,
Ben

Re: Can i delete old bayes files?

[Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>]

At 07:11 AM 3/29/2005, Ben @ Wylie wrote:
>My F:\Documents and Settings\User\.spamassassin folder contains my bayes
>files. I back this whole folder up regularly.
>Am I right in thinking that if I have backed it up already, I can delete all
>the .expire files and all old_ files?

Yes

>Also, I don't use auto-whitelist, so can I delete that file?

Yes

>Also, the user_prefs file is empty because I manage settings elsewhere, can
>I get rid of this or is it required to have a file there?

Yes, although depending on your SA settings it might get re-created. Spamd 
does this by default, but there's a command-line parameter that disables it.

>Basically I think the only files I need to keep here are:
>Bayes_journal
>Bayes_seen
>Bayes_toks
>
>Is this correct?

Yep.