Check the Deleted Items.dbx file size after compacting. That would be your
best observation point. Compacting only removes space that was used prior to
messages being deleted, so if you haven't deleted any messages, compacting
won't show much of a change.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Dan" wrote in message
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Even after I compact folders and messages in OE, it seems that the file
size
of my DBX files is still as large as before. Is there a way to get the
file
size to shrink?

Dan