Oyster wrote:
Hi Group;
Just happened, I lost all messages in my inbox from mid April '07 to
this morning 11/16/07. Sent items file is still fine. Been having
problems with OE the last few weeks. Sometimes it just stops working
or messages are temporarily lost. I shut it down and restart the
program and the all come back. That's not working now. I am running
OE6 on a Windows XP-Pro machine. I have a POP server. Anything else
anyone needs to know? let me know. Also, recently for the last 2
weeks or so, I have been getting the notice to compress. I haven't
done that yet.
Help.... Please....
Thanks,
Paul

Your Inbox got too big. Read the links already given for the reasons and
fixes for it. You MUST compact your e-mail database now and then. It IS a
database, and as such, requires compacting. Try it now and see if it works;
it might not be too late to keep from losing all the e-mails if you're one
of those types who don't back things up. OE defaults to, I think, asking to
compress every 100 openings by default. You are way overdue by the sound of
it.
While you compact, do NOTHING else on the computer. Let it work alone.

If you've kept your OS up to date, when you do compact, there is a backup
kept in the Recyce Bin, just in case something does go wrong. I've never
needed it, but I like knowing it's there if I forget and have other apps
running when I do the compact.

HTH

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