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unable to compact all folders in OE
Then you'll be able to compact. It will happen if a download is in progress or triggers during a compact, and sometimes for no obvious reason at all. -- It always occurs when trying to compact the Folders File. On another system, I have absolutely no problems compacting all Folders.

unable to compact all folders in OE
Mickey Segal not_monito...@example.com microsoft public windows vista mail 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

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Neither of the two compacting option in Tools, Options, Maintenance are the best ways to compact. Select File, Folder, Compact All Folders and let it run. It may take an hour. After that run Disk Defragmenter in Safe Mode. The option to Compact Messages in the Background is blamed for creating problems and the

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Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down

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Menu>File>Folder>Compact all Folders Or... Menu>Tools>Options...>Maintenance>[Clean up now...] Local Files for: OutLook Express [Compact] Then it *should* Compact them (by removing the space that was occupied by any messages that were in the Folder, but have been Moved (or Deleted). My deleted items dbx file is

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Oh. and does it mater that i have all toled about 103 or so folders? does the amount of folders matter in oE? Chould this be why I'm getting the mesage? Thanks. Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote: If it's just Folders.dbx, ignore it. Else, close OE and then use Task Manager (right click the taskbar) to verify that

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In practice I find placing the cursor on Outlook Express and selecting File, Folder, Compact All the best way to compact all folders. I do not advocate using the compacting options in Tools, Options, Maintenance. If you want to compact a single mail folder use File, Folder, Compact. For a single newsgroup right

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Darrell <dbulv...@alltel.net> wrote in message news:u8E4GM7K$GA.244@cppssbbsa02. microsoft.com... When I click File/Folders/ Compress All Folders it starts compressing than stops. The message it gives is The folder is currently in use by Outlook Express or by another application What needs to be done to fix this?

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Steve T. "Steven D Harvey" <sdhar...@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:Pq9X5.288066$g6.128506031@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com... Help....I accidentally hit "compact all folders" Now I'm unable to send e-mails....Recipients aren't receiving...but my records show "sent".......what does "compact all folders" do and how

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F1ComNOS...@gmail.com mozilla support thunderbird 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 on a specific folder for

unable to compact all folders in OE
Then 20 minutes later after cleaning stuff out of other groups, emails, deleted, etc, I go Offline to "Compact all folders" and it will take the same amount of time, even though I've just compacted that folder. I notice it cuz I do it every day (post a lot of graphics to NGs), just before ScanDisk and Defrag.

OE 5.5 often crashes doing "Compact all folders"
Mail will not be answered. http://members.home.com/jlpick99/oe.htm http://support.microsoft.com/support/news/rules.asp "rollace" <roll...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ObRFoYBUAHA.285@cppssbbsa02.microsoft.com... Compact All Folders fails when it gets to Folders.dbx. I get an error message that it is already

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Go through all folders and delete and stuff you no longer need. Empty your deleted items folder. Click on TOOLS OPTIONS MAINTENANCE and uncheck Compact messages in background, then click OK. Click on FILE FOLDERS and choose COMPACT ALL FOLDERS An E-mail program is actually a database. When you delete stuff from a

unable to compact all folders in OE
=20 Every once in a while, when I try to compact all folders, I get an = error message for the Inbox: cannot compact folder. I have no idea what = this is du to. The only work around I have found is to move all the messages to = another folder, close OE and then go physically delete inbox.mbx and = inbox.idx Then,

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Recently when I try to compact folders using File>Folder>Compact all my system gets part way through and stops and I get the following error message: "The folder is currently in use by Outlook Express or another application" I have nothing running but DUN usually and sometimes ICQ. It has never happened before when

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It gets the ooprtunity to reread those, you don't lose anything, but you get all the old stuff back again. dg "Gary R. Templeman" <gSPAMNOTtemple...@proaxis.com> wrote in message news:39d6c262_1@news.pacifier.com... When attempting to compact all folders, even though I have selected to work offline OE works through

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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 Nope! I doubt the issue is intentional - but I find it rather agreeable. You can now empty the Mail Centre Trash without having to accommodate the compaction of

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After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while working *offline* and do it often. 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.

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Are you working Offline while attempting the compact? If not, and you have OE set to poll for incoming messages on a set schedule, and a polling takes place, the compacting will OE 5.5 (win 98 SE) often crashes when doing "Compact all folders" and sometimes when switching Identities -- any ideas as to why?

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CFDBF3C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have noticed that the "Compact -> All Folders" option in the "File" = menu(while a great improvement over compacting each folder individually) = seems to have a problem. It tries to compact the Outbox,