Re: How to stop compacting files

Bear

It's simpler to manually compact all before the count reaches 100 as that seems to restart the count process.


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Gerry

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"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:esmBLLCYFHA.160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Your current Identity may be damaged, especially if its the default Main Identity. Try one or more of your accounts in a new Named Identity (File>Identities>Add new identity). Assuming all is well, import messages from the old Identity before deleting it (File>Identities>Manage Identities).

Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose.

Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

Disable Background Compacting [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm.

Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
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William wrote: 
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
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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.
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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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