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Old August 3rd 08, 12:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
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CESDewar wrote:
I use a Visual Basic program to insert emails into Outlook Express using
DoCmd.SendObject and every time that command is executed, OE *now* ups the
compaction count, rendering this feature a pain as after 100 emails, it
wants to compact the registry...


Thanks for this feedback.

It would be helpful if MS just LEFT this program alone. If they ARE going
to
have a programmer make changes, then rewrite this application to use a
proper database that doesn't require this nonsense of compaction.
Compaction was done in the 1970's because few programmers then knew how to
structure databases that did not require compaction, but in the 1980's
most
learnt how to do that. That was 25 years ago


Care to guess when OE was written? eg

 




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