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  1. August 1st, 2008, 05:55 AM #1
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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Compacting email messages

    OE6 on my XP pc keeps inviting me to compact my email messages to save memory. Is there any downsize to doing so? Thanks.
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  2. August 1st, 2008, 06:24 AM #2
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    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.
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    DeP: Thanks.
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    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.

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    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?
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    In a perfect world, it would alert you....But you're now an informed consumer and don't have to worry about it
    If you're happy and you know it......it's your meds.
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