The past two times, it's been alt.autos.toyota and rec.boats. Newserver is
whatever is used by my ISP, Frontier.


"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
To keep track of things, it helps immensely if you include all of previous
message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup. Thank you.

Symptom: Every couple of months, I'll click on one newsgroup (never the
same one - no pattern I can discern) and OE will crash.

Repost: What newsgroup on what newsserver?
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~PA Bear

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
What newsgroup on what newsserver?

General OE Caveats:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

Already done.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

Already done.

- Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently
perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline".
More
at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

Already done.

- WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
automatically compacting your message store.

Already done.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.

Already done.

That's why this is so strange. All these things have been normal
procedure
here for a couple of years.
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
Running OE 6, with Win XP Pro, SP2, all updates. Assume (correctly) for
the
moment that I observe **all** precautionary measures you've ever heard
of
with regard to keeping data safe in OE.

Symptom: Every couple of months, I'll click on one newsgroup (never the
same
one - no pattern I can discern) and OE will crash. If I restart, and
avoid
checking that newsgroup, it'll run fine. The only fix is to delete
folders.dbx, but of course, that results in my having to drag all my
email
subfolders back into place.

Is this just something we have to live with?