When you compact, a copy of your files is sent to the Recycle Bin as a
back up. "just in case". Assuming all messages in OE are as you wish,
check and empty the Recycle Bin.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Jess Fertudei" wrote in message
...
A family member's XP sp2 box was getting low on space on it's C drive. It
was down to 1.64 G free and I noticed that he had 1.2 G of train shots in
a rail group. I did a delete bodies and then compacted. The thing took
forever as it copied files to somewhere that I did not take note of as I
thought it would be a backup that would delete afterward.

After a shut down and reboot I expected to see 1.2 + 1.64 for about
2.8Gigs free, give or take... instead, he now has 1.42G free.

SIGH

A search for .bak on the drive found nothing and no files look
particularly large that I see... so I must not be looking very well.

Where do I look for whatever I need to nuke?