Re: OE6 slow to open messages.

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From: Kevin Lawton (socks.kepla.shoes_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 12/14/04

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    No, if I had been referring to 'Pop3uidl.dbx' then I would have actually
    written 'Pop3uidl.dbx'. Odd though it may appear, in writing 'Pop3.log' I
    was actually referring to a file called 'Pop3.log'. Strange, but true !
    It is absolutely vital that I can access my messages from different
    machines, so I have my settings such that anything I choose to delete gets
    deleted off the servers, but if I choose to keep it then it stays on the
    servers so I can read it on another machine too. What would be the effect
    of regularly deleting the 'Pop3uidl.dbx' file ? I could do this in a log
    on / log off script as a maintainance task. Would it in any way cause me to
    lose access to some messages or cause duplicates to be downloaded ?
    Kevin.

    Bruce Hagen <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote:
    | 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.
    |
    | "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.

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