Re: Compact messages

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Open OE | Help | About. In the box, scroll down to msoe.dll and post the numbers you see there.

What do you mean by using my delete file as a garbage pail? Are you telling
me top clean it out more often?

Yes. As I said before:

General precautions for Outlook Express:

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupt. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while working *offline* and do it often.

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.

If I use the OEQB, does it overwrite the info that I had in it previously?

You can set it to overwrite, or not.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Bobm0001" <Bobm0001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7F024A7E-642C-48BB-896B-8478C4E2ACDF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for your help. I'm getting there.

I don't have the msoe.dll patch. How do I get it? I went into windows
update and they can't find it by the number.

Also,. I do not have a program that automatically cleans out the Recycle
Bin.

What do you mean by using my delete file as a garbage pail? Are you telling
me top clean it out more often?

If I use the OEQB, does it overwrite the info that I had in it previously?

Thanks agin. You've been a big help.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Did you read the Help for OEQB? Did you create the requires folder?
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/oeqb.htm

In OE | Help | About......., scroll down to msoe.dll. Are your numbers
600.2900.3028? If not, then you're not fully patched and won't find BAK
folders.

Do you have any program that automatically empties the Recycle Bin?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Bobm0001" <Bobm0001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:89EAC46C-46D9-40E2-B6E1-27D1152A1856@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks for your advice. I assume I'm fully patched. I have my > computer
> set
> to automatically update, yet I can't find BAK files in the Recycle Bin.
> Also, wshen I try to use OE Quick Backup, I keep getting a message > "Please
> select a backup folder before proceding further." I'm embarassed to > say I
> don't know how to do this.
>
> "Bruce Hagen" wrote:
>
>> Why are you keeping messages in a garbage pail? (Deleted Items).
>>
>> Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?:
>> http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact
>>
>> Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE functioning
>> well
>> and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you don't.
>> When
>> you delete, or move messages, the space they had used remains until >> you
>> compact.
>>
>> See:
>> www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2
>>
>> With SP2, automatic background compacting was removed due to problems >> it
>> caused. Now you will get a prompt to compact after 100 OE closings, >> which
>> you should do, and don't touch anything until it has finished. See >> this
>> for
>> more information:
>> http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact
>>
>> If you are fully patched, you will also now see a copy of your dbx >> files
>> being copied to the Recycle Bin as BAK files. Should something go awry
>> when
>> compacting, the messages can easily be restored from this backup. A
>> manual
>> compact will also reset the counter in the registry back to zero now.
>>
>> For more info, see the information outlined in red here:
>> www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2
>>
>> To keep things running smooth, and for faster compacting:
>>
>> Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
>> corrupt and you may lose mail. Create your own user defined folders >> for
>> storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder
>> regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders >> as
>> empty as is feasible.
>>
>> And backup often.
>>
>> Backup and Restore:
>>
>> http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/
>>
>> http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
>>
>> http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx
>> -- >> Bruce Hagen
>> MS-MVP Outlook Express
>> ~IB-CA~
>>
>> "Bobm0001" <Bobm0001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:998DEB13-EDC9-4957-8F44-429B77182458@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > About every four or five times I follow the compact messages
>> > directions, I
>> > lose 1-6 months of messages in either the deleted or send file. >> > Each
>> > time,
>> > I swear I'll never compact messages again, but OE wears me down by
>> > forcing
>> > me
>> > to reject the compacting.
>> >
>> > Can I retreive the lost messages? How do I backup the messages so I
>> > don't
>> > lose them permanently?
>> >
>>
>>



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