I learned a long time ago that when folks in the know like you think
something is a good idea and has basis for implementation, it's usually
after they have studied it and worked with it for a protracted period and
see it as a general improvement in the program.
Dudley

Dudley Henriques
[MVP] Microsoft Flight Simulator

"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
Thanks for taking the time to read and understand the need for this
update, Dudley.
--
~PA Bear

Dudley Henriques wrote:
Thanks Bear;
I've been manually compacting OE for years when I close the computer each
night. It's the last thing I do actually.
I have created several archive folders on the bar and regularly transfer
files out of the sent folder into this archive folder.
I use no automatic download features at all on my system, so hopefully
nothing is downloaded when OE is being manually compacted so I avoid
corruption this way (knock on wood at least :-)
This new update I guess wouldn't affect me using OE the way I do, but
it's
no big deal to have the baks put into the recycle bin when I compact. I
know
this procedure probably helps a lot of people so I can live with it :-)
DH


"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
[X-post to OE General and OE6 newsgroups]

Why we MVPs asked for it for many, many years:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl....htm#mailgone;
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

+26,000 instances where messages have gone missing during/after
compacting: http://snipurl.com/156d5

The behavior was first introduced earlier this year with the 918766
patch.
We've been telling everyone here that this patch would be included in
the
next Cumulative Update for OE: http://snipurl.com/156du

NB: With 923694 (MS06-076) installed, you do NOT need to install 918766,
nor would installing it succeed.

See Notes section of http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 for
documentation of this behavior and how to recover your messages using
the
BAK files. (IMHO, this documentation and more should be spelled out in
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923694 but I'm not holding my
breath.)
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)


Dudley Henriques wrote:
I compact folders each night manually in OE and have never had any
issues
with this procedure. The folders compress and that's it.
Just tonight, OE started copying all the dbx files to the recycle bin
as
I
manually compress. They show up there with a BAK extension.
Can anyone shed any light on this for me. I don't think I've changed
any
settings and this has never happened before.
If possible I need to know what's happening and why and how to correct
it
if
it's an issue please.