Re: IE6 'Store Folder' ...

Bruce Hagen ...

.... thank you for the quick, helpful, response
.... I will heed your directions; always great to get help from those that
know
.... Is there any 'workflow' that I can establish to handle my Outlook
Express maintenance ?

Thanks.
Take care.
Jim Hughes
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"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Delete any dbx files currently not in use and then compact all your
folders.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything
until the compacting is completed.

You already figured out ho to tell the size of the dbx files. For
non-newsgroups, we usually recommend keeping them under 100MB. But that is
a precaution so you don't lose e-mail messages. OE only mirrors what is on
the server, so there is no worries about losing newsgroup messages as long
as they are on the server, since you can Reset and download them again.

Newsgroups do remove messages after a period of time, so if you have
anything in particular you want to save, drag it to a user created folder
for archiving.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Jim Hughes" <jhughes1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Good Evening ...

In my Store Folder I have a number of .dbx and .dbt newsgroups, that I
have subscribed to at one time ... but not all currently; some of those
are well into the million bytes.

I also have a .dbx file for every presently subscribed-to newsgroup, as
well as for every item under my Local Folders. My 'Deleted Items' .dbx
file is
437mb.

If these sizes are too big, how do I maintain/monitor the sizes to stay
in good grace with Outlook Express?

I do 'reset' followed by 'compact' at least every other day.

Please advise me how to maintain this 'stuff' in good fashion.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
Jim Hughes





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