"marrie" wrote in message
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I recreated he new identity with the same results. It appeared to work and
now i can't compact. it seems to get stuck at different folders to, at
least that's what i'm noticing by memorizing all of my folders and hearing
witch one it stops on.


If compacting stops because it can't compact a folder it gives an error
message saying which folder it couldn't compact. If you aren't getting the
message what makes you think it isn't compacting all? If no messages have
been deleted from a folder compacting will not change the file's size and it
sometimes won't change if too few have been deleted because of the way DBX
files allocate space.

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