Re: OE6 slow to open messages.

From: Bruce Hagen (Nospam_at_mymail.invalid)
Date: 12/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:18:25 -0800

If you referring to the dbx file "Pop3uidl", that file grows from
leaving messages on the server. You can delete the dbx file, (with
OE closed) and a new one will be created when you open OE. You may
have to Compact again to see results.

Unless you need to access mail from more than one location, or
identity, uncheck the option to leave a copy on the server. Also,
make sure none of your message rules have *Do not download from
the server* as the action for the rule. 

-- 
     Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - (IE/OE)
        ~IB-CA~
"Kevin Lawton" <socks.kepla.shoes@btinternet.com> wrote in message 
news:cpmum6$n5o$1@titan.btinternet.com...
>I tried that, but no reall effect. Then again, Temp Internet 
>Files is
> cleared down whenever I log on/off so there wouldn't be much 
> accumulating in
> there anyway.
> One thing which concerns me is the size of the 'Pop3.log' file - 
> almost
> three-and-a-hlaf Gigabytes !   My end of August backup shows 
> this as having
> been only two Gigabytes in size, so it has grown since then. 
> Sometime around
> late October the big slowdown problem reared its ugly head.
> Kevin.
>
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote:
> | From  http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/CA.htm
> | Outlook Express 5.5 or 6 places a zero byte file in TIF for 
> every
> | message that you read. These files are only visible from Start 
> | Find
> | | Files of Folders, not from Windows Explorer. I had been 
> letting
> | them accumulate to see if they will affect OE's performance. 
> Finally,
> | at something over 27,000 files it did. The gray flicker upon 
> opening
> | a message changed from a fraction of a second to over a 
> second.
> |
> | Of course, I then cleared them and OE was cured.
> |
> | However, I did it by using deltree from DOS to empty TIF and 
> forgot
> | to run smartdrv first. It took more that two hours. I don't 
> think
> | I'll let them accumulate like that again.
> |
> | The easy way to get rid of them if you use OE 5.5 or 6 is to 
> open
> | Internet Explorer and go to Tools | Internet Options. In the
> | Temporary Internet Files Section choose "Delete files". In the 
> next
> | dialogue check the box for "Delete all offline content" and 
> click
> | "OK".
> |
> | "Kevin Lawton" <socks.kepla.shoes@btinternet.com> wrote in 
> message
> | news:cpcuon$g60$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
> || This problem is still continuing and, as a result, I am now 
> spending
> || about 12 hours per day waiting for e-mails to open. each one 
> takes
> || around 30 to 60
> || seconds - very long messages take 3-4 minutes.
> || I am now geting desperate !  With about 500 to 600 e-mails to 
> sift
> || through per day, I am left with insufficient time to get work 
> done
> || and sleep.  I am
> || amazed that there isn't a solution for this !  Some people 
> have
> || mentioned 'SP2' but I can't find any servie packs for Outlook
> || Experess.  Is this e-mail client program so badly flawed that 
> it
> || can't work correctly ?
> || I am very nervous about updating anything, thanks to other 
> messages I
> || seen,
> || I really cannot afford to start losing my store of old 
> messages.
> || Kevin.
> ||
> || Kevin Lawton <socks.kepla.shoes@btinternet.com> wrote:
> ||| Just thought I'd post back to say that after all the 
> helpfull
> ||| suggestions the problem remains the same.
> ||| I'm not too sure about updating OE6 with the service pack as 
> I've
> ||| seen plenty messages on newsgroups from people with opther 
> problems
> ||| after having done so.
> ||| Kevin.
> |||
> ||| Jim Pickering <jimp@mvps.0rg> wrote:
> |||| That used to be a problem with version 5.5 but today using 
> OE6, the
> |||| only time I see a hesitation is when the setting is to Read 
> All in
> |||| Plain Text, but that should not be a problem with the 
> version you
> |||| posted with (which by the way, should be updated by 
> visiting the
> |||| Windows Update page).  The earlier KB article is linked 
> below.
> ||||
> |||| 259848 - OLEXP: Preview Pane Flickers When You Click a 
> Message:
> |||| 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;259848
> ||||
> |||| You might want to try a defrag of your hard drive and see 
> if that
> |||| improves the situation.  Good luck.
> ||||
> |||| "Kevin Lawton" <socks.kepla.shoes@btinternet.com> wrote in 
> message
> |||| news:cld8al$m6l$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
> ||||| Frank, thanks for the idea but it didn't have any effect. 
> I do
> ||||| clear down temp files regularly so it only took a few 
> seconds to
> ||||| run.
> ||||| Still got the problem . . . any more ideas ?
> ||||| Kevin.
> |||||
> ||||| Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE <franksaunders@mvps.org> 
> wrote:
> |||||| "Kevin Lawton" <socks.kepla.shoes@btinternet.com> wrote 
> in
> |||||| message news:clc6v2$b4p$1@titan.btinternet.com
> ||||||| Hopefully somebody can help with this very frustrating 
> problem.
> ||||||| Up to about a week ago, whenever I clicked on a message 
> to see
> ||||||| it in the preview pane - or even clicked on a folder 
> which
> ||||||| would show the first message in it - OE was able to 
> display the
> ||||||| message virtually instantly, certainly less than a 
> second
> ||||||| delay. Since then, for the past few days, whenever I 
> select a
> ||||||| message the preview pane is grey for about 15 seconds to 
> a
> ||||||| minute before the message shows. During this time OE 
> will not
> ||||||| respond to the
> ||||||| keyboard or mouse and CPU usage flies up to at least 99% 
> for
> ||||||| msimn.exe. It is as if it is really hard work for OE to 
> actually
> ||||||| show a message in the preview pane.
> ||||||| I get the same delay if I double-click the message to 
> 'open' it
> ||||||| up, or hit the 'forward' or 'reply' radio buttons.
> ||||||| This doesn't seem to be a connection problem - I'm on 
> ADSL 512K
> ||||||| - as it occurs with messages in any folder or newsgroup.
> ||||||| I've run SPyBot and got rid of any problems it reported 
> but no
> ||||||| change. Any ideas, anyone ?
> ||||||| TIA,
> ||||||| Kevin.
> ||||||
> |||||| Open Internet Explorer.
> |||||| Click Tools | Internet Options.
> |||||| Click
> |||||| delete
> |||||| files in the Temporary Internet files section
> |||||| Click the option to clear all offline files.
> |||||| This will probably take quite a while to run.  Let it 
> complete.
>
>