Re: Outlook Express message box

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"mikew" <mikewilliams.mwcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" <franksaunders@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: > "mikew" <mikew.mwcsREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: wrote: "Compacting of folders is necessary or they will become corrupted"
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: <snip>
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: Frank, are you saying that if I delete a message out of an Inbox, then
: delete the entire Deleted Items folder, the ` Deleted Items` folder is
still
: the same size as before it was emptied
: Also, does this mean the Inbox will be the same size as it was before the
: files where moved to the Deleted Items folder
:
: Deleting a file should remove the header information that Windows uses to
: locate the file and then mark that area of the hard drive as being
available
: to be overwritten, I can't see how it can retain the origonal size
: Yes the file will be there, but Windows should recognise it as available
: space and not as if was a currently available file
: Possibly I'm expecting too much of Microsoft
:
: And one last thing if you can bear with me
: Where has this 100 close downs come from
: If Outlook Express is looking at the size of a folder then the ammount of
: times it is opened and closed is immaterial, surley the size of the files
: should be the determining factor if it needs to do extra work and not the
: frequency that it is used
:
: I hope I'm not coming over as predantic here, but I write desktop apps and
: my programs do not suffer from this problem, unless I wanted to put the
: problem there, and hopefully, I'm about to learn a bit more as to how
: Microsoft write software
:
: Thanks for your input here, the reply I made to Tonyo should explaine why
it
: is not really in the right place
:
: mikew
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:
I believe that you deleted the contents of Deleted Items, not the entire
folder.
Dbx files are database type files. The location of a message is removed
when you delete a message. The space is not regained until the dbx file is
compacted.

Previously, OE could compact after every closing.
This frequent compacting increased the chances of file corruption and
subsequent loss on messages.
100 closings is a tradeoff between too frequent and never compacting.
Slowness opening an OE folder is an indication that the folder needs
compacting.

There is not much to learn from how Microsoft writes free software.
--
Ron Sommer

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