If I may offer my 2¢, I believe the original idea was that a second compact
would overwrite the first, so there would never be more than one copy of the
dbx files in the Recycle Bin. Obviously, this is not the case.

AFAIK, the only way to stop the copying of the files to the Recycle Bin
would be to remove the update, but not a good idea.

I use CCleaner. A freeware tool that empties the Recycle Bin, deletes TIFs,
Cookies, History, whatever you want. It is very fast and can also be set to
run at startup if you wish. Have a look.

CCleaner:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Pete" wrote in message
...
Thanks Jim... Can you tell me how to get it to stop copying the files to
the
recycle bin. What a bunch of crap. If there is no way to stop it I will
have to stop my regular compacting and just wait for windows to notify me
every 100 openings of OE, and then empty the recycle bin immediately.
Thanks...Pete

PS - but I do understand the logic for protection against corruption.


Jim Pickering wrote:
It is copying your existing DBX files from the message store folder
to the Recycle Bin as a precaution against damage to the DBX files so
that you will not "lose" your stored messages. A KB article will be
released, hopefully in a short while explaining all of this, but in
the meantime, see the info here (in the red box under Tip #2):
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

"Pete" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone,

I am running xpsp2 and use OE 6...

I compact all folders in OE on a regular basis (ie every day), and
have been doing this for a long time. I just noticed something
today that I never noticed before (I don't think - or at least not
on a regular basis). When I click "compact all folders" it puts up
two boxes (the one I'm used to in the center, and a "new one" that I
do not recall, which says "copying", and is located to the upper
left of the regular box in the center. After the upper left box
gets done copying whatever it is copying, it closes and then the
center box finishes the compacting process.

Can someone please tell me what could have caused this second box to
appear all of a sudden. I seriously doubt it has anything to do
with any of the windows security updates (I just updated windows
today). Could something be wrong here.

Thanks for any help you can provide...Pete