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Compact All Folders - Off or Online OE5
I recently attempted to "compact all folders" in OE5. The process completed about 95% and stopped responding, although there was continuous disk access. I tried to "compact all folders" again with the same results. Now, in my OE5 folder there is over 500 megs ( 2.7 gig still free) of ODS and DBT files in the

Outlooks missing emails
I have run Compact all folders. Now although the message headers are present there is no text in the body of the message. Attachments still appear to be OK. I was also geting an error messgae something like 'Send failed'. I had a systems crash going into Outlook, and thought it might have corrupted Outlook.

Memory full?
t.cruise t__cruise@[NoSpam]hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general If you have OE set up to send and receive messages at startup and to check for new messages at timed intervals, you'll get that folder being used message when trying to manually compact some or all folders. In the main window of OE click the

Where is "compact all folders"?
Click File | Work Offline Click File | Folders | Compact All The reason for the offline part is to make sure that OE is not busy trying to download I can not Compact My - Local Folders - using the command - Compact All Folders. I get the message- "This folder is currently in use by Outlook Express or by another

Compact All Folders
... outlookexpress @Hm C. Koch" <tk...@mvps.org> wrote: Hi Bob - That is not an uncommon problem. Try this to get it working: Click File|Work Offline. Click once on Outlook Express in the Folder list so that no folder is open. Then click File|Folders|Compact All. Thanks Tom, that did the trick :-) -- Regards, Bob.

XP offering to compact messages
Here is advice from another post: -- Ronald Sommer Move all your message out of Sent Items and the Inbox, as well as any other default OE folder, to local folders you create and then compact all your folders. That should take care of it. Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are open.

URGENT HELP go slow
To permanently delete them, with the deleted items folder open, you will need to either = select all messages and delete then file | folder | compact | compact all folders or selectively pick = the ones you want to delete and compact to permanently delete them. --=20 GREG gregl...@niven.imsweb.net

OE is not displaying all messages in Inbox
I did tha but now different folders wich worked before are showing the error message. Thanks. marrie "Ken" <PleaseRe...@NewsGroup.Thanks> wrote in message news:%23nd9w9lkHHA.4516@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... Re: Ok.I found one of hte folders, I think. In this new identity, delete this problem folder. Compact all folders

OE 5 Cannot Compact All Folders?!
Pete Holsberg p...@mccc.edu mozilla support thunderbird Is there any way to set up a Windows Scheduled Task (or a cron job) to run TB and have it compact all folders and then shut down? Is there any way to do a similar thing to rebuild the MSF files? I hate to wait around while TB compacts and then not rebuild the

Lost messages after Compact in OE6
Chris Ilias n...@ilias.ca mozilla dev apps thunderbird _David Bienvenu_ spoke thusly on 19/05/2006 4:01 PM: 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.

- Mail compact all folders.
Then tried the 'compact all' and it worked!!!!! Mmmmm - mystery but all OK and thanks for the very full reply Ken "Bruce Hagen" <Nos...@mymail.invalid> wrote in message news:%23tjZ46BCHHA.1300@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... Start by compacting the folders individually. When you are done, create a new local folder for the

Compact All Folder error message ? IE/OE 6
It appeared to work and now i can't compact. it seems to get stuck at different folders to, at least that's what i'm noticing by memorizing all of my folders and hearing witch one it stops on. If compacting stops because it can't compact a folder it gives an error message saying which folder it couldn't compact.

OE 5.5 often crashes doing "Compact all folders"
From my experience it never has worked with IMAP servers the same way it works with local folders - on IMAP it only compacts selected folder - not only in 1.6 but also in previous versions. I should have said in 1.6 and earlier versions. In no version I've tested has IMAP folder compaction worked on more than one

Deleting dowloaded newsgroup messages
Then test if that identities message store will compact correctly or not. If all works well, you could then delete the messages stored in the older identity and use it only for your OE 5.5 (win 98 SE) often crashes when doing "Compact all folders" and sometimes when switching Identities -- any ideas as to why?

Outlook Express (Compact All Files)
Nevertheless,at Frank's suggestion I did re-read Maintenance at tomsterdam: And I DID learn that File| Folder| Compact All Folders will compact not only your news folders, but also the ALL-IMPORTANT FOLDERS.DBX-- I hadn't realize that! There's probably something you understand that I don't... so I'm trying manual

unable to compact all folders in OE
Pipit...@act.cmis.csiro.au netscape public beta feedback general "Compact all folders" option for mail? Eg to compact all folders of a given mail server group. JP -- Jevan.Pipit...@act.cmis.csiro.au Independent Contractor CSIRO Petroleum Genesis Project GPO Box 664 tel: +61 6 216 7040 CANBERRA ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA

Cannot compact folders.dbx
Grim testing...@testing123.com mozilla support thunderbird Terry R. wrote: On 5/7/2007 11:46 AM On a whim, Jim Higgins pounded out on the keyboard Is there any indication from TB2 that it is doing anything when I punch "compact all folders" when I have "local folders" highlighted? Hi Jim, I believe you have to be

Compact All Folders
this email does not work html...@aol.com microsoft public outlook general Where can I find the Outlook equivalent of "compact all folders" in OE? Thx Gary Right-click on "Outlook Today" icon in Outlook Bar, choose Properties, Advanced, Compact Now. -Sheattle Sue, sheattle(at)aol(dot)com All email blocked from

Compact All Folders
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 the top of the File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed. If the Inbox fails to compact, create a new one.

Compact all folders
In 4.72 it no longer does so, and the File... menu only allows you to compact the currently selected mail folder. Is there a way to compact all the folders with a single action? -- __o Andate Michael Khaw _`\<; in <michael.k...@acm.org> (*)/(*) bici! Sunnyvale, CA, USA.