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Running "compact all folders" offline
Use Message Rules to delete old messages, then go to Work Offline, then Compact All Folders. (Return to Online and continue...) -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Windows 9x "PCR" To compact, "OE, File menu, Folder, Compact all folders". That should be done after you manually apply the rule to delete older posts.

Query.
Normally under Windows 98 I leave checked the option to compress in background and Compact messages when there is 20% wasted space. Under that section in Windows XP, however, there are no check items in the Maintenance section. Any ideas why all of a sudden Compacting all folders would just delete over 500 messages

Can't compact all folders in Outlook Express
Liz l...@wazhere.com 24hoursupport helpdesk Hi all the brains, No, I did not upgrade to no stinking *Gold*. This phenomena started from yesterday. I have already went through all my folders, deleted some HTML emails, which I thought it might be the cause. Anyway, the compacting starts normally, but in the middle of

When compacting folders ...
Trent, As long as it is not the very same folder each time that you use the compact all folders command, this does not seem to cause any problems, Use the compact all folders command after each online session, and leave the "compact messages in the background" and "compact messages when there is 20% wasted

OE 5 Cannot Compact All Folders?!
The items are not removed until the folders with deleted items are compacted. You need to compact all your OE folders regularly. This saves disk space and speeds up OE. Close the Folders List, click The X or View | Layout | Unslelect Folders List. File | Folder | Compact All Folders (Or hit Alt + F + F + F) .

Cannot compact all folders
EBFB...@pacbell.net Hello, I have automatic compacting of folders turned off. So I occasionally go in and press File/Folder/Compact All Folders. Now it is telling me, on two of my folders, there is insufficient disk space. I closed OE6, looked at the files, and the largest one is 172 MB.

For Thorsten Matzner and a Question about Compressing Files
I solved it by choosing file->folder->compact. Now I have problems when sending mails. I got error (warning) without any details. Messages to be send still remain in Outbox folder, but in fact all the new messages have been sent succesfully to receiver?! -Niko.

Compacting data file?
Assuming all is well, (1) compact all folders in the old identity, (2) import messages from the old identity into the new one, and then (3) delete the old one (File > Identities > Manage Identities). See caveats in my last reply. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience

compact All folders?
But here it would be desirable to have a button to compact all folders within a account, because I have ~13 folders.. And a third problem: When sending large attachments, thunderbird sends them to the smtp and then once again to my IMAP Sent folder. Is it possible to have a setting that thunderbird strips

OE is not displaying all messages in Inbox
Compact All Folders compacts all folders, even ones that haven't been touched since the last compaction. As Frank says you can compact single folders with the exception of Folders.dbx. I have many folders, including ones holding copies of all the email messages I've sent for the last 4 years.

Slow display of newsgroups
To compact: Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach,

"Outlook Express Message List Control"
You can mark all messages in a newsgroup as read manually by clicking in the top right-hand pane then pressing Ctrl+A to highlight all messages, then right-click and click Mark as Read. You can compact messages manually by clicking File then Folder then either Compact or Compact All Folders. If these don't work,

OE Freezes
Josef Stempl josef.ste...@neuburger.de netscape public mozilla mail-news FRANZ schrieb: It'll be very easy for us :) how do you do this? to compact all folders? and does anyone know how to compress all mailfolders when leaving mozilla. like it was in netscape 4.7x greetings joe.

OE6 redownloading the same stuff... have 1300+ emails in each ...
PA Bear [MS MVP] PABear...@gmail.com microsoft public outlookexpress general Delete the contents of Deleted Items manually, then compact all folders manually Keep all these folders not much more than 100MB each. After you have moved all messages out of the Inbox, compact all folders. Click on Outlook Express at

SE OE5 still very slow
If not: Did you (1) make sure that Sent Items and Deleted items were empty, (2) close OE, (3) delete the file Folders.dbx from the original identity's message store, (4) open OE, and (5) compact all folders before you imported the messages into the new identity? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE,

Compact Folders crashes OE 5.5
I agree that "compact all folders" was not easy to find in Outlook Express, but the logical thing to do would have been to put a "Compact now" button into "Tools | Options | Advanced | Maintenance". "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc...@nospam.com> wrote in message news:udJPMFhbHHA.4000@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl.

- Mail compact all folders.
3) It occurred most recently shortly after I did a compact on all folders, so that did not help. TIA for the additional help. NOTE: All information about whether messages are read or unread will be lost. Others have reported that doing a Compact of All Folders has resolved the problem.

folder gone
Hello Everyone A really basic question . . . should you be offline before going File/Folder/Compact All Folders - in other words, does it matter if you are Online (but not connected) when compacting? I checked Help and there's no mention of the current status so it probaly doesn't matter... I'm sure you will gather

Store File Repeatedly Corrupted--Newsgroups Display Freezes PC
Jim Higgins gordian...@hotmail.com mozilla support thunderbird Is there any indication from TB2 that it is doing anything when I punch "compact all folders" when I have "local folders" highlighted?

can't view all folders
Michael mogm...@mlug.missouri.edu mozilla dev apps thunderbird Empty Trash used to also do a compact all folders, back in the early days. This made sense to the developers, but not to a lot of users. I suspect compacting just the Inbox will be similar but not as extreme. It will confuse some users, but perhaps it's