That's what I was thinking. I don't have the time or a pair of eyes right
now to reformat the system, but that's what i'm thinking I need to do.

Ken wrote:
: Hello Marrie,
:
: From the result of this test I can only conclude something other
: then a corrupt message store is causing the problem.
:
: Thanks for letting me try to help, sorry it didn't work out.
:
: Good luck in your endeavor to find the problem.
:
: Ken
:
: "marrie" wrote in message
: ...
: | This is a follow up thread as I'm haivn tproblems sending witht e
: | continuing thread. Hear is what we did so far.
: | 1. creat a new identity. i called it test for now.
: | 2. do a compact all with no problems making sure I was off line
: | 3. import about 5 folders and compact all.no problems
: | 4. repeat step 2 until I had problems.
: | 5. make sure that problem folder was deleted in the test identity
: | and made sure the deleted items folder was empty
: |
: | The problem of not beeing able to perform a compact all in OE 6
: | still occures with a different folder beeing spoken (I use a
: | screen reader) every time the message that a folder is in use by
: | OE or a different program, appears. I hope all of this info helps.
: | marrie