## General and Sorting Options

This page will let you set the default sorting options for the display of the digests and messages on the main window. There are two levels of sorting available, the Primary and Secondary sorts. The Primary sort is the first sort performed, and orders all the messages and digests according to the specified sort field. The Secondary sort is then performed, and only takes effect on those messages which have identical fields for the primary sort.

Normally the sort will be in ascending order. However, if the Descending box is checked then the sort will be in reverse order.

There is also the ability to set the expiration limit on the database which stores information on what articles you have read, and a cache size for the database. Entries in the database do expire automatically upon program startup. The amount of time is counted from the time the message was first added to the database. If a message entry gets expired, and is then added again, the time limit will start over `and` the message will be marked as `unread`. If you change the expiration limit you can restart the expiration process by selecting the option from the `File->Expire Database` from the main screen.

Generally you would want to leave the cache size at a reasonable amount. Each cache block is 4K in size, so if you make it too big you will use up all available memory. If you notice a lot of disk thrashing while loading a large number of digests you may want to increase the cache size to see if that helps.

The expiration database is stored in a file called `listview.db` , and is stored in the same directory as where the program is located. You can look at the file to see how big it is. Entries take approximately 25-50 bytes each, so it does not take too much space on disk.

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Table of Contents
Overview and Features - Getting Started - Digest and Message thread
Accelerator Keys - Program Startup - Main Window
Find - Message and Compose - Digest
Queued Messages - Error Log - File Filter
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