"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


You only need to compact if you do a lot of deletions and moving around with
large folders. And you can compact the folders individually. Or if you
have huge messages of several megabytes that are being shifted so the
folders grow very large.


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


There is a huge issue of compaction causing problems with message loss for
OE users. This patch is a stopgap measure to help prevent loss during
compaction. If the user compacts now and it fails, then the lost messages
can be recovered from the recycle bin. Its a backup for your important
messages. Too many OE users were all of sudden finding out their messages
for years and years were all gone irrecoverably in an instant. Something
needed to be done.

See here for details: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

steve



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