The message when it does appear is vegue. it only says that the folder is
in use by OE or anotehr program. the "other program" doesn't make sence to
me at all. and the message only appears when I do a compact all,not a
compact on each seprate folder.
Marrie
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote:
: "marrie" wrote in message
: ...
: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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: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
: http://www.fjsmjs.com