Outlook Banter - View Single Post - overloaded newsgroup

**Dean**

Thanks, that may have to be my approach.

Dean

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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I don't know how they managed to stay on your machine so long, but there is
always this:
http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...r=&safe=images
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Dean" wrote in message
news
Thanks, Bruce - I did already compact. I remain a little confused about
how it seems to be able to retain my threads from years ago, yet
supposedly, only has 3 months' worth. Perhaps, it has them stored on my
hard disk or something. Regardless, it is those old posts I want to
retain and I'm having trouble working around that - I may have already
lost them when I did the reset you suggested. Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks!
Dean

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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Compact your folders, close and reopen OE and see if that newsgroup is
more responsive.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything
until the compacting is completed.

If that does not help, go to Tools | Options | Maintenance | Clean Up
Now. Select that newsgroup at the top and then Reset, followed up with
Compact. Reset will remove and re-download all messages on the server
for that newsgroup.

Now if you don't want to download all three months of posts, do this
first.

If you want to download newsgroups, but don't want hundreds, or
thousands, of messages, you can create a message rule such as this:

Tools | Message Rules | News.

Box 1: Where the message was sent more than days ago
Box 2: Delete it & Stop processing more rules
Box 3: Click on "Days" and choose the # of days you want.
Name the rule.

In Tools | Options | Read - Uncheck: Get XXX headers at a time. When you
go to, or subscribe to a newsgroup, it will only download the messages
for the number of days you selected.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Dean" wrote in message
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I use outlook express to monitor these Microsoft newsgroups. Some of
the ones I use seem to have too much stuff and since I only care to keep
a copy of my old posts, so I don't ask the same dumb question twice, I
am in the process of copying only these posts into a separate folder.
Then I delete all the old posts, except mine, in the newsgroup, say
monthly. This seem to help immeasurably with the daily re-load time of
OE newsgroups, which was becoming a big problem. However, there is one
newsgroup, windowxp.general where the number of threads is almost 1
million, only 7 of which are mine. I would like to save them also, but
when ever I highlight that newsgroup, even when I get it to go as far as
only showing just my 7 threads, OE become non-responsive. I have tried
it many times. I suppose the best thing would be to simply try to
delete the newsgroup - I'm not sure it will even let me do that - and
resubscribe, but how do I stop it from downloading 1 million threads
again. Also, will I be able to get my seven threads back?

Help, please.