I understand, thanks. Sorry about the terminology, I was brought up on a "paper" system, when a "file" was in a "filing cabinet", and the papers in it made up a "file"---- as in "bring in the Hagen file, we have to discuss it". now, the papers or documents are the files, and the collection of them is called the folder. I can adapt though!
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ...
Well, you need to compact from time to time. The space used by deleted messages remains until you do. When you say moving files to a saved file, do you mean individual messages to a saved *Folder*, or dragging a folder so it is a subfolder of another? The latter is fine because subfolders have their own dbx files. But if you refer to moving messages to one folder, that's where you want to be careful about the size. Create a Saved Folder 1, and Saved Folder 2, etc. if any become too large.
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Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
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"Happy" wrote in message ...
Oh, that was for everything in that identity, all the folders, and I have 42 and none of them are overly large! So it sounds like I may be ok for now.
Which makes me a bit suspicious however, as I asked a question some time ago about individual files that were disappearing when I moved them over to a saved file, and I thought the answer was that the folder was full, and needed to be reduced, either by deletion of files , or compacting.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ...
Was that 176 MB for the entire identity, or one folder? Each user created folder is safe at 100MB, and you can have many.