The folders,dbsx is about 713 kb in size. I don't have a search.dbx at
all. The only news account I have is the msnews.microsoft.com news account.
The total size of all dbx files is about 410 mb.

Marrie

Robert Aldwinckle wrote:
: "marrie" wrote in message
: ...
:O no I wait, but the stupid message still appears when I hit alt+f,
: f, f. verses alt+f, f, c to compact by hand all 101 folders.
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:
: Then the only difference is Folders.dbx.
: The only way to compact it is with Alt-F,F,F
: How big is it? How many news accounts do you have
: and how many newsgroups does each host?
: Also, how many Search*.dbx do you have?
:
: What I would try, before completely rebuilding Folders.dbx, is
: make large changes to it to see if it would compact after them.
: For example, start by closing OE (and make sure that msimn.exe
: is not longer an active task) and delete all Search*.dbx (assuming
: you don't have any local folders or newsgroups which match that
: pattern too, otherwise use a more specific pattern when deleting
: them.)
: If that isn't enough decide if one of your news accounts can be
: scrapped. E.g. often I have a duplicate news account which is just
: there for testing. Deleting it would remove all the newsgroup names
: that it hosts, thus giving a compaction of Folders.dbx a lot more
: to work with.
:
:
: Good luck
:
: Robert Aldwinckle
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