Steve...thanks to you also. I am relatively familiar with compacting and do
have oodles of "stuff" in OE, plus my ng messages (many of which I copy to a
folder), and it was my understanding that deletions don't "really take
place" until you compact all folders.

At any rate, I have been aware of the corruption problem and believe it or
not it has never happened to me that I know of :-) . I am very careful when
compacting (manually or by the notification), NOT to even get close to the
mouse after very crisply hitting the left button - lol. It is amazing the
things that can happen to a pc if you accidentally hit two buttons or keys
at the same time.

I read the OETips that you and Jim both mentioned. Thanks again...Pete

Steve Cochran wrote:
"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
...
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