For a while now OE6 wants to keep compacting the mail
folders
I let it do this , this morning and after a couple more
emails arrived it want to compact again . Starting to be
a pesky nuisance !

Appreciate advice on how to stop this , please

Many thanks

Bye


--
MargM
Beautiful Central Coast of NSW
Australia

Did you close OE and then see the prompt to compact? And if so, did you
check OK and let it compact, or did you open OE and do it manually? If you
used the Compact Prompt, you should not see that for another 100 closings,
but manually, you will see it again.

Post back and elaborate, because there is a fix if you did it manually.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"MargM" wrote in message
...
For a while now OE6 wants to keep compacting the mail folders
I let it do this , this morning and after a couple more emails arrived it
want to compact again . Starting to be a pesky nuisance !

Appreciate advice on how to stop this , please

Many thanks

Bye


--
MargM
Beautiful Central Coast of NSW
Australia

Bruce - the latest patch to OE has fixed the counter reset problem for
compacting

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Did you close OE and then see the prompt to compact? And if so, did you
check OK and let it compact, or did you open OE and do it manually? If you
used the Compact Prompt, you should not see that for another 100 closings,
but manually, you will see it again.

Post back and elaborate, because there is a fix if you did it manually.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"MargM" wrote in message
...
For a while now OE6 wants to keep compacting the mail folders
I let it do this , this morning and after a couple more emails arrived it
want to compact again . Starting to be a pesky nuisance !

Appreciate advice on how to stop this , please

Many thanks

Bye


--
MargM
Beautiful Central Coast of NSW
Australia

Noel,

Was this *ever* at Windows Updates? I never saw it there. Just picked it up
from Kristen in the Pvt. newsgroup.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
...
Bruce - the latest patch to OE has fixed the counter reset problem for
compacting

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Did you close OE and then see the prompt to compact? And if so, did you
check OK and let it compact, or did you open OE and do it manually? If
you used the Compact Prompt, you should not see that for another 100
closings, but manually, you will see it again.

Post back and elaborate, because there is a fix if you did it manually.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"MargM" wrote in message
...
For a while now OE6 wants to keep compacting the mail folders
I let it do this , this morning and after a couple more emails arrived
it want to compact again . Starting to be a pesky nuisance !

Appreciate advice on how to stop this , please

Many thanks

Bye


--
MargM
Beautiful Central Coast of NSW
Australia

Bruce Hagen wrote:
Noel,

Was this *ever* at Windows Updates? I never saw it there. Just picked it
up from Kristen in the Pvt. newsgroup.

I never saw it either.

Alias

AFAIK, It is only at the download center. ( Patch KB918651:
http://tinyurl.com/mx3r2 ). See my latest reply to MargM. It's a two part
process.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Alias" wrote in message
...
Bruce Hagen wrote:
Noel,

Was this *ever* at Windows Updates? I never saw it there. Just picked it
up from Kristen in the Pvt. newsgroup.

I never saw it either.

Alias

"MargM" wrote in message
...
For a while now OE6 wants to keep compacting the mail
folders
I let it do this , this morning and after a couple more
emails arrived it want to compact again . Starting to
be a pesky nuisance !

Appreciate advice on how to stop this , please

Bruce

This dialog box come up when I close OE to do something
else . . This computer is over 2 years old and this
compacting message use to come up occasionally which is
understandable but in the past few weeks its happening
alot
If I click no to compacting more than about 6 times
.............. The send /receive icon wont work and have
to re boot . Its being a pesky machine !


Thanks

Bye



MargM
Beautiful Central Coast of NSW
Australia

You may not have this patch, and be sure to see the link at the bottom. It
is a two part fix.

Patch KB918651:
http://tinyurl.com/mx3r2

This patch addresses some of the issues that were caused by KB911567.

Address Book problems.
Unsent templates appearing as sent.
Manually compacting will now reset the registry counter to Zero in
WinXP/SP2.

See this link for more important information about editing the registry to
complete the process:
http://www.insideoe.com/#kb918651
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"MargM" wrote in message
...

"MargM" wrote in message
...
For a while now OE6 wants to keep compacting the mail folders
I let it do this , this morning and after a couple more emails arrived it
want to compact again . Starting to be a pesky nuisance !

Appreciate advice on how to stop this , please

Bruce

This dialog box come up when I close OE to do something else . . This
computer is over 2 years old and this compacting message use to come up
occasionally which is understandable but in the past few weeks its
happening alot
If I click no to compacting more than about 6 times ............. The
send /receive icon wont work and have to re boot . Its being a pesky
machine !


Thanks

Bye



MargM
Beautiful Central Coast of NSW
Australia

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
You may not have this patch, and be sure to see the link
at the bottom. It is a two part fix.

Patch KB918651:
http://tinyurl.com/mx3r2
Hi again Bruce
I downloaded and installed this. Tried opening and
closing OE and this pesky dialog box still kept appearing
.. So I thought I try compacting manually........ Seems to
have fixed the problem


This patch addresses some of the issues that were caused
by KB911567.

Address Book problems.
Unsent templates appearing as sent.
Manually compacting will now reset the registry counter
to Zero in WinXP/SP2.

See this link for more important information about
editing the registry to complete the process:
http://www.insideoe.com/#kb918651

I would be very wary about editing the registry . Looks
like this step wont be necessary anyway ( fingers
crossed )


Many thanks for your help

Bye

MargM
Beautiful Central Coast of NSW
Australia