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**Steve Cochran**

"Terry Haeber" Terry wrote in message
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Thanks for your reply, Jim.
I wasn't suggesting or intending to use this as a substitute for backing
up, rather as a known, good, and current copy (between back ups) should a
problem occur during compacting.
Terry

This was the entire point of the patch, as users were (are) consistently
having problems with the compaction process. Now if it fails, you can
restore from the recycle bin.

steve

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
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If you click the Restore operation in the Recycle Bin, the BAK files will
be copied to your existing message store folder. And they are the files
that were existing before the compact begins, so they are probably
bloated in size. You can copy all the *.BAK files moved to the message
store folder to a folder for safekeeping but their main intent is to
provide the ability to recover from a problem, if one should occur during
a compacting operation.

If that were to happen, you would copy all of the *.bak files from the
message store folder to a new folder, then rename them all to have a
*.dbx extension. Then open Outlook Express, selecting
File/Import/Messages and selecting "From a Message Store folder" and
pointing the wizard to the folder in which you placed the renamed *.bak
files.

They are not a substitute for regular backup procedures.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"Terry Haeber" Terry wrote in message
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I've installed this patch, as well as the REG file generously provided
by Freudi, and all seems to be working well. I especially like the
patch's functions to copy the OE folders to the Recycle Bin as BAK
files, and the resetting of the compact count to zero - I checked to
make sure that was working.
I do have a question though.
I compact daily, and backup OE weekly. If you right click on the BAK
files after compacting you have a "restore" option. If I were to move
these elswhere, then after the following day's compacting delete them
and move the new ones (so that during compacting I would have one set of
BAK files), would this set serve as a backup should a problem occur
during compacting?
The reason I am considering this is that it would be more current than
my weekly backup - not to suggest it would replace backing up.
Thanks
Terry