Re: .bak files not in Recycle Bin after compact

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Repost: Please quote my entire post when you reply. I will not answer any more of your posts unless you do so.

You didn't do #1 properly. I wanted you to look at OE Help | About, not Windows Help | About. Try again.

What do you mean all of your hotfixes are missing? Is "Show Updates" box checked in Add/Remove Programs? Have you installed WinXP SP3 since you first post in this thread?

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The above notwithstanding, 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, (1) compact all folders in the old identity, (2) import messages from the old identity into the new one, and then (3) delete the old one (File | Identities | Manage Identities).

To avoid such corruption in future, closely adhere to the caveats I posted in my previous reply.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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Patrick wrote:
1. Open OE Help | About | look in Files list and tell me the version
numbers of these files: DIRECTDB.DLL, INETCOMM.DLL, and MSOE.DLL.

6.00.2900.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)

2. Open OE File | Identities | Manage Identities: Is there only one (1)
identity listed here and is it called "Main Identity"?

yes

3. Is Automatic Updates enabled?

yes (all of my Hotfixes are missing now though)

4. Can you successfully scan and update manually at Windows Update website
(http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com)?

no because the Genuine Windows verify won't allow me

5. What anti-virus application or security suite is installed? What
anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall
(if any)? Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed?

McAfee and ZoneAlarm
<paste>
Patrick wrote:
Deleted files do go to the Recycle Bin

"Use one setting" is the only one of those checked and it's at 10% (811MB
for drive C)

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Can't do a System Restore because that only keeps one Restore point from
the
previous day (but that's another problem I'll post about)

Actually, both issues may be related (i.e., insufficient disk space).
Let's work on only Recycle Bin for now.

When you delete /any/ file, does it go to the Recycle Bin or not?

Right-click on Recycle Bin icon on your desktop | Properties | Global
(tab):

=> Is "Do not move files to the Recycle Bin..." checked or not?

=> Is "Use one settings for all drives" checked or not?

=> What value is selected in "Maximum size" section? <paste> Patrick
wrote: My files still compact, but normally you would see the .bak files
being copied and filling the Recycle Bin during the process. I'm not
seeing that
anymore and after it's done compacting, there are no .bak files in the
Recycle Bin

I recently deleted hundreds of e-mails, but I don't think that should
matter

I may have changed something in the Registry with Regedit, but I couldn't
find anything

Can't do a System Restore because that only keeps one Restore point from
the
previous day (but that's another problem I'll post about)

I'm running XP Pro SP 2

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