I think the problem everyone is stressing is that you don't want anything
downloading into a folder like the inbox as you are compacting. The way I
use OE might be preventing this anyway, as I am configured to check for mail
and everything else for that matter manually. In other words, I don't use
ANY automatic downloads on my system.
Just an individual preference I guess, but it seems to work for me.
I'm not all that savvy on OE, so I have a tendency to do what the folks in
the know suggest. I can't think of anything that clicking on the OE folder
does for me in my scenario, but I'll usually do things that Frank and the
folks suggest anyway just in case they know something I might have missed
:-))
DH


"mae" wrote in message
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I have always had the tree open because I often select individual folder.
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mae

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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| Thanks Bruce, I'll just click on OE before compacting.
| DH
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| "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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| You don't actually have to close the tree, but it is suggested to
click
on
| Outlook Express so no active folder is open.
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| Bruce Hagen
| MS-MVP Outlook Express
| ~IB-CA~
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| "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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| I've always left the tree there because I didn't know that it
mattered
I
| guess. Is it better to click it closed before compacting? Safer????
| Dudley
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| "Alias" wrote in message
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-snip
| Very. The other thing I do when I compact is to click on Outlook
Express
| at the top of the folder tree, get rid of the folder tree and, like
you,
| go off line. You can put icons on the tool bar for both going off
line
-snip much
| "Alias" wrote in message
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| Dudley Henriques wrote:
| "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote in
| message
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| "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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| Just to add to what Alias and Steve said, this is a Good Thing.