"webster72n" wrote in message
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"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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Well that sure will do it. w At least your carrier didn't give the
standard, "It's not our fault. It must be OE" response.

I still stand by what I posted as good practice for OE.

Except for "compacting", I'm practicing all of the recommended procedures.
Yes, I am also back in business, Bruce.
Thank you so very much. H.


You're welcome. If you don't compact, you will lose entire folders at some
point. Do as you wish, but please at least see these.

Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?:
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact

Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE functioning well
and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you don't. When
you delete, or move messages, the space they had used remains until you
compact.

See:
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

About File Corruption:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

With SP2, automatic background compacting was removed due to problems it
caused. Now you will get a prompt to compact after 100 OE closings, which
you should do, and don't touch anything until it has finished. See this for
more information:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact

If you are fully patched, you will also now see a copy of your dbx files
being copied to the Recycle Bin as BAK files. Should something go awry when
compacting, the messages can easily be restored from this backup. A manual
compact will also reset the counter in the registry back to zero now.

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
Imperial Beach, CA