AFAIK, you would have to remove the patch. As it addressed other issues as
well, it wouldn't be a good idea. When SP3 comes out, (I have no idea when),
you would end up with the backup anyway.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Lindsay Graham" wrote in message
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Thanks, Bruce. But is there any way off turning off the 'mandatory
backup'? I ask because my OE message store is generally bigger than the
free space on that drive partition, so that I have to do a temporary
transfer before I can compact. When I backup OE before compacting, I
backup to a different drive (an external hard drive), so this problem does
not arise.

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Lindsay Graham

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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This is due to a recent OE update, (KB923694). Now when you compact, a
copy of your dbx files are sent to the Recycle Bin in the event that
something should go wrong and messages, or entire folders, are lost when
you are compacting.

Many people do not back up Outlook Express on a regular basis. This new
mandatory backup is something people have been asking for quite awhile as
we spend a lot of time helping people getting their messages back, and
they have to purchase a tool to recover messages.

You can empty the Recycle Bin any time you want and the bak files will go
away until you compact again.

For more info, see the information outlined in red he
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Lindsay Graham" wrote in message
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I use WinXP SP2 with IE7 and OE6. When I compact files in OE, 'backups'
are created in the Recycle Bin. But I always do a full backup of OE
before I compact -- so is there any way (eg, a Registry hack?) of turning
off the copying when compacting OE?

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Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia