XRaySpeX: That's okay...I uninstalled the damned patch. Gawd,
they tee me off.

Doug W.

"XRaySpeX" wrote in message
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I totally agree with you, Doug; it's pure stupidity! It's a
complete
unexpected change of functionality. The whole purpose of
Compaction is to
save space; instead M/Soft has done the contradictory action
and consumed yet
more space by copying the whole of OE's message store rather
than just
freeing up the unused space within it. Furthermore, they have
multiplied the
waste by saving yet another copy of the whole store FOR EACH
TIME you Compact.

They should have made this action optional by adding a
parameter in OE's
Options or at least the Registry. At the very least, they
should have removed
the previous set of .bak files in the Recycle Bin when they
back up for the
latest Compaction, so as not to proliferate the problem.

"Doug" wrote:
Alias: One of the goofiest schemes that Microsoft has come up
with in a while. What on earth has happened?...these guys are
nuts. Filling up my computer with a whole bunch of useless
backups which I didn't want or ask for is just plain dumb.

I know, the MVPs will say...well if you don't like the patch,
then uninstall it. I say, if they are going to re-program OE
or
patch it, then do it correctly, not with stupid easy routines
that don't really correct things but just mask them or give
you
an out if things go wrong.

In the meantime, put up with this BS, and for gawds sake
don't
complain...as it will do no good.