Make multiple folders and move the messages to them keeping them at 100MB
each. If you successfully get the messages moved and the folders still won't
compact, back them up first and then post back and we'll make a new, clean
Sent Items folder.
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Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Bill H." wrote in message
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Trying to move a bunch of msgs from the sent folder to other folders (like
"old sent").

Now that the "old sent.dbx" file is about 2gb, I can no longer move any
messages into it. I get an error in OE.

Also I get an error during the compaction that says the file is currently
in
use by OE or another application (this for a couple of the OE folders).
Well, it's certainly not another application (that I can see) and I set OE
to work offline before beginning the compacting.

I knew that Outlook had a 2gb file limitation, but I learned on this forum
that OE did not have that same limitation, yet it does appear to.

Also, I'm unable to compact the existing sent items folder, which is only
about 1.8gb on the hard drive. I have moved a lot of stuff out, and I
suspect the compacting would greatly reduce the filesize, but it won't
compact (though all the other folders will).

Help?

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Bill

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