"VanguardLH" wrote;

"Louise" wrote;
I am having a problem with old newsgroup messages in Outlook Express 6 on
Windows XP SP2.

I have these settings in Tools Options Maintenance set;

[Ticked] Delete read message bodies in newsgroups.
[Ticked] Delete news messages 2 days after being downloaded.

The messages do not go, they hang around forever!!!

Have also tried the Windows repair thing (Start Run sfc /scannow
press ENTER.) as per MS's site and that did nothing, not even a message,
but took a good 10 minutes or so to run.

Nothing seems to have made a difference and yet everything else works
fine. Except one newsgroup (even though I have clicked 'Catch Up') still
tries to download *all* the thousands of messages every now and then!?


You forgot to mention something or perhaps to notice it: Those options are
under the "When compacting ..." group of options. Well, that means WHEN
compaction occurs is WHEN those options are honored. Did you actually
perform a manual compaction? No? Well, then those options aren't
effected until OE happens to get around to doing the compaction itself
which, after WinXP SP-2, will be every 100 sessions of OE.

I did not notice that it was specifically under the Compacting section but I
have done several manual compactions and that has not got rid of any of the
messages.

How come this never used to be the case with Windows 98? On that, newsgroup
messages (Headers and Message Bodies) were removed after x number of days
using practically the same settings in Options.

--
Louise