Tom Brown wrote:
Thanks Bruce.

As I mentioned, this is my sister's problem I am talking about. I
personally have never had this problem and I frequently leave a couple of
thousand messages in a folder.

Don't store messages in the default folders.

But, I have created a Saved folder (archive) with Saved Sent, Incoming, and
Deleted under it and then under those I have annual subfolders like 2003,
2004, 2005. So, the oldest message in my Inbox is less than 1 year old
before it gets moved to the archived folders.

It *should* be less than one *day* old.

I move the messages shortly
after the first of the year. Do you think that's soon enough to archive
them?

No.

I have XP SP2 and I only compact the database when prompted. I assume that
is sufficient.

Thanks again,

Tom

No, it isn't. Compact every day unless you send/receive/delete very few
messages a day.

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