Thanks Bruce...I know how to deal with this. It indeed dumped 895 MB in my
recycle bin after just a few compactions (testing), so it did not overwrite
(I don't think) - lol .
As an aside all of the MS updates are not always "gold". I tried to update
to IE 7.0 and it locked me up everytime I exited - lots of problems with IE
7 - hp interface problems, etc. I had to uninstall it and go back to
version 6. IMO, Firefox is way better than IE anyway but you need IE to do
update windows, so I hope 6.0 will be around for a while.
I do like OE better than Thunderbird though (lots of reasons - all of which
the Mozilla people disagree with of course).
Take care...Pete :-)
Bruce Hagen wrote:
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/
"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
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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