Re: How to stop compacting files

Thanks very much for your prompt reply. Since OE6
compacts automatically, and there is nothing that be
done, I guess I have to do back up periodically.
Everytime it compacts, error message will appear and the
compacting process will never be completed which results
in loss of messages in the folders. Thanks anyway...



>-----Original Message-----
>XP/SP2 has an automatic compacting that takes place when
you've
>opened/closed Outlook Express 100 times. If you
interupt the compacting you
>will lose messages that have been stored. On the
offchance that you may
>still have them available, search for files ending with
the extension of
>either DBX (in your message store folder) or DBT (files
created when a
>compacting takes place). There are tools available that
can extract
>messages from those files at www.oehelp.com
>
>I'd also suggest you review this article:
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/fil
ecorruption.mspx
>--
>Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
>https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-
4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
>Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others
can be helped.
>Thanks.
>
>
>"William" <wmlui6998@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:17f801c56003$c4ae41d0$a401280a@xxxxxxxxxx
>> For your information:
>>
>> Operating system: OE6.00.2900.2180
(xpsp_2_rtm0408032158)
>>
>> inetcom.dll: 6.00.2900.2527(xpsp_sp2_gdr.040919.1056)
>>
>> just hope the above infom will assist you in solving
the
>> problem.. Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>Operating system in use? Version of inetcomm.dll as
>> shown in Help/About
>>>screen in Outlook Express?
>>>
>>>Without that info, we're just guessing and you don't
>> provide any real info
>>
>>
>>>to even try and formulate a guess.
>>>--
>>>Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
>>>https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-
4AE3-
>> 4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
>>>Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that
others
>> can be helped.
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>"William" <wmlui6998@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>news:078001c55ffc$c06aa8e0$a501280a@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>> How can I stop OE from compacting message files
>>>> automatically. Every time it
>>>> compacts, all messages inside the files will be gone.
>>>
>>>.
>>>
>
>.
>
.

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