Purge Events

If you use your Treo to schedule a considerable portion of your life, you will no doubt accumulate quite a few events over time. And unlike contacts and some other PIM data, events probably won't mean nearly as much after they drift into the past. Fortunately, the Calendar application includes a purge feature for deleting all events older than a certain date. For example, you can delete all the events older than a week in the past with a single command. This is a useful way to conserve memory and clear out old events you no longer need.

To purge events in the Calendar application, follow these steps:

1.	Press the Menu button and scroll down to the Purge menu item. Press the Center button on the five-way navigator (or simply tap the Purge menu item) to issue the Purge menu command, which displays the Purge screen (see Figure 6.13). Figure 6.13. The Purge screen prompts you to purge events later than a specified amount of time.
2.	The Purge screen includes a pick list for specifying how old events must be to be purged. For example, the default value of 1 Week results in all events older than one week being deleted from your device. Purging events periodically is a good idea to help save memory, although you might decide to keep events farther back than a week if you find yourself needing to reference them. You can set the purge period as far back as a month if you want, which means that only events older than a month are purged.
3.	To follow through with the event purge process, tap the OK button. If you change your mind about purging events, just tap Cancel.

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The Purge screen provides a handy way to blitz all old events at once. Of course, purging events like this can also be dangerous if you aren't careful. Just make sure you want to purge the events in question before going through with the purge operation.

Unless you have lots of free memory and are attached to old events, I encourage you to purge events on a regular basis. You can always choose to archive them on your desktop computer as part of the purge process. That way, they aren't completely lost forever if you prefer to keep a history of your meetings and appointments.