Re: Compacting folders

You're welcome. What you had stated was the way I thought way back when,
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA
until I was shown the light. <w>

"CBoom" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gjdjjr$i61$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
yes you are correct.

I did some tests... and indeed bad1 and bad2 have different dbx files!

I stand corrected!

Thanks for this

"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#iqscMpaJHA.4732@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have to respectfully disagree with you. Bad1 is a subfolder of the Inbox and Bad2 is a subfolder of Bad1. If you look in the messages store there will be a Bad1.dbx file and a bad2.dbx file. They are not inside the Inbox and do not share the same dbx file.

I also respectfully disagree with Gerry. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having a subfolder located under /any/ OE folder, user created or default.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"CBoom" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gjcso8$f89$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The OP may have subfolders of the Inbox with subfolders under those subfolders, but he cannot have a user created folder /inside/ the Inbox. Just can't be done.

I prefer to make things clear and simple for the OP to understand... I made a simple image below

I don’t know what you are saying the above, above because I can have "a user created folder /inside/ the inbox" as you can see in the screenshot below

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/3149578867_9921b84820.jpg?v=0

from the above screenshot the 2 folders there with names bad1 and bad2 is a bad strategy, since each of those share the same and single dbx file of the INBOX

while Good1 and Good2 each has its own dbx file and each dbx file has the 2gb limit. While the combined capacity of inbox+bad1+bad2 is only 2gb, the combined capacity of Inbox+good1+good2 is 6GB!

To the OP, you should organize your data as GOOD1 and GOOD2 since each of these have a separate dbx file, and not as BAD1 BAD2 since these share the same dbx file with the INBOX

and as I said there is a limit of 2 gb for the dbx files.. outlook just cant handle bigger size than than ...

and again I must point out, by deleting emails or moving folders without compacting, you are NOT decreasing the size.

You have to compact after so that the dbx files shrink.






"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ebt78ajaJHA.684@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I /did/ suggested a 100MB max, (my habit), as corruption usually occurs long before the 2GB limit is reached.

The OP may have subfolders of the Inbox with subfolders under those subfolders, but he cannot have a user created folder /inside/ the Inbox. Just can't be done.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"CBoom" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gjc784$cj0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Listen carefully because no one else is telling you these things!:

1) when the dbx = databases of outlook express reach 2gb in size then
Outlook express crashes and you lose data!!

The way to avoid this is to make new folders along side the inbox and not
INSIDE the inbox, that way each new folder with have its OWN database file
(dbx) so more data will be spread out among more databases creating more
stability!

2) after moving or even deleting emails from outlook express the DBX files
DO NOT SHRINK UNLESS YOU COMPACT THEM!

even if you delete EVERY EMAIL the previous large size remains unless you
compact them!

so do what I said in step 1, create new folders along side the inbox, outbox
etc, and take the emails from the subfolders inside the inbox and place them
there...

then compact everything!

You can back up your dbx folder BEFORE doing all this if you are afraid..

if you don’t know how, post back and I will tell you!


"cajun_mike" <cajun_mike@ qwest(DONOTSPAM).net> wrote in message news:9D99BFFA-6F65-4536-B339-1EE903EDA17B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've reached the point where every time I exit OE I'm asked if I want to
compact my folders to save space. The answer is, and will be, no. I have
plenty of space, back up often, and run Outlook Express Quick Backup. No
sweat.

How can I stop the program from repeatedly asking me if I want to back up
the folders?

Thanks a million!

Mike




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