Re: Daily backup of Outlook Express

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Jon wrote:
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Uncle Grumpy wrote:
PA Bear wrote:
Then make absolutely certain that you compact all OE folders before
backing
up.

Why would that be a consideration???

Is the cost of current storage media prohibitive if one doesn't compact
things?

It has nothing to do with cost and everything to do with corruption. See
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

Compacting is merely analogous to a hard drive defragmentation. It wouldn't
be advisable to defragment your hard drive every single day of its
existence - since the constant wear and tear on the drive would long-term do
it more harm than good - so the same for the compacting process.

Compacting your OE store is only minimally analogous to defragging your HDD.

The article you quote also discusses the dangers of excessive and pedantic
compacting, as well as its value.

True, but as a longtime OE user and MVP, I'd recommend that /anyone/ who receives (let alone sends) over 300 messages a day in OE to compact all folders before backing up at the end of every day.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

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