Re: How to stop compacting files

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/filecorruption.mspx
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Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
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"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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