[RESOLVED] Compacting email messages

[wdc]

OE6 on my XP pc keeps inviting me to compact my email messages to save memory. Is there any downsize to doing so? Thanks.

[DeP]

OE will ask you to compact messages every 100th time you close OE.
This is a good thing, it will in fact compress .dbx files (your folders in Outlook)
You can change this by a registry hack but that's not wise.

[wdc]

DeP: Thanks.

[Tufenuf]

wdc, The kink below expains it fairly well.

Why You Should Let Outlook Express Compact Messages When It Asks You
http://email.about.com/od/outlookexp...compact_oe.htm

Whatever you do DO NOT interrupt the compacting process.

Tufenuf

[wdc]

Tufenuf: Thanks, great. Since it is so essential not to interrupt the compacting process, wouldn't you think OE would alert you to that when it flashes the "do you want to compact" message?

[Steve R Jones]

In a perfect world, it would alert you....But you're now an informed consumer and don't have to worry about it