Compacting messages
 

Everytime I back out of Outlook Express I get a dialog box popup that say's
( to free up disk space outlook express can compact messages) how do I stop
this
message from popping up?
--
Rekab1

Compacting messages
 

"Rekab1" wrote in message
...
Everytime I back out of Outlook Express I get a dialog box popup that
say's
( to free up disk space outlook express can compact messages) how do I
stop
this
message from popping up?
--
Rekab1

Rekab1, with all due respect, you would be better to allow OE to compact
your
folders.

See:
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Let it run, "do not" touch anything until it completes.
Work offline.

Every message that you ever deleted remains in the .dbx file of it's folder,
thus leading to large files = corruption in OE
This is a new feature in OE under XP-SP2, it replaces the 'back ground'
compaction feature.
You will get that prompt to compact after 100
OE closings,


To stop it - for now!!


Go to: StartRunRegeditOK and find this key.


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{long number}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\5.0. In the right
hand pane and find *Compact Check Count* right clickmodifydecimaland set
the value to 0,
(zero). This will reset the prompt, and you won't see it again for
another 100 closings.

You edit the registry at your own risk!
See:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/why.htm#compact

FYI:
Steve Cochran has added a button in his new version of *OE Tool*
that will Compact All Folders, and at the same time,
resets the "Compact Check Count" to zero whenever you compact
manually.
You will see the prompt again if you do not compact
before 100 closings.
http://www.oehelp.com/OETool/


See this for more information on compacting:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact


See this part, but read all the article:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...filecorruption....
HTH?


--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE.

Compacting messages
 

"Rekab1" wrote in message
...
Everytime I back out of Outlook Express I get a dialog box popup that
say's
( to free up disk space outlook express can compact messages) how do I
stop
this
message from popping up?
--
Rekab1

Compacting of folders is necessary or they will become corrupted or else so
large that they can no longer be used. Deleting a message does not reclaim
the space. The message is marked as deleted but is still there until the
folder is compacted. That is why programs such as DBXtract work.

If a user closes compacting while compacting is in progress data loss will
probably occur.

Open OE and close it and let it compact the messages. After doing this it
won't ask again until you have closed OE 100 times.

If you have WinXP SP2 you will want this update:
There are two articles, KB918766 and KB918651, but the latter is not
currently available. The download link is
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

It places the backup in Recycled, overwriting any earlier backup of the
sane folder(s). To use it, copy it to the store folder, delete the one you
want to replace and then rename the BAK file to DBX. (It's a bit more
complicated if the messed up DBX file isn't there or contains messages that
are new that you want to keep.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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Compacting messages
 

See also www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 There is a new patch that addresses
this issue.

steve

"Rekab1" wrote in message
...
Everytime I back out of Outlook Express I get a dialog box popup that
say's
( to free up disk space outlook express can compact messages) how do I
stop
this
message from popping up?
--
Rekab1

Compacting messages
 

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
See also www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 There is a new patch that addresses
this issue.

steve

"Rekab1" wrote in message
...
Everytime I back out of Outlook Express I get a dialog box popup that
say's
( to free up disk space outlook express can compact messages) how do I
stop
this
message from popping up?
--
Rekab1

Compacting messages
 

"lp[" kio wrote in message ...

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
See also www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 There is a new patch that
addresses this issue.

steve

"Rekab1" wrote in message
...
Everytime I back out of Outlook Express I get a dialog box popup that
say's
( to free up disk space outlook express can compact messages) how do I
stop
this
message from popping up?
--
Rekab1




You're missing a lot of patches. You ought to turn on Automatic Updates.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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