How to rid Outlook EX. compact messages

Title says it all. How can I rid the constant annoying popup in Outlook
Express wanting to free up disk space and compact messages. This is a little
ridiculous in the era of huge hard drives.

GTowner wrote:
> Title says it all. How can I rid the constant annoying popup in Outlook
> Express wanting to free up disk space and compact messages. This is a little
> ridiculous in the era of huge hard drives.

You can't and it has nothing to do with how much space is on your hard
drive at all. If you don't do it, sooner or later you will lose all your
messages. I trust you have a back up, being as you have plenty of space
to put a back up. To make matters worse, if OE is compacting messages
and the power goes out or someone hits the reboot button on your
computer case, bye, bye messages.

So, when it appears, let it do its thing and don't touch your mouse or
keyboard until it's done. If you've never done it and if you have a lot
of messages, it may take a long time. Be patient. Don't have any other
programs open when you're compacting.

To never see the message again, download OE Tool, free, which will set
the counter back to zero every time you use OE Tool to compact. You see,
that compact window will appear every 100 times that you close OE.

OE Tool:

http://www.oehelp.com/OETool/Default.aspx

OE Backup:

http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

Alias

GTowner wrote:
> Title says it all. How can I rid the constant annoying popup in
> Outlook Express wanting to free up disk space and compact messages.
> This is a little ridiculous in the era of huge hard drives.

Outlook Express is wanting to compact the DATABASE it uses to store your
email.

It is ridding itself of the empty areas left in the database when you
move/delete email from one location to another.

It is not just a space concern - but a performance concern. Do it every so
often - it doesn't take long and if you do it when you are about to leave
for lunch/go to bed/whatever - you'll never know.. Not to mention you might
notice a performance increase the next time you use the application.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
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I have always kept messages in my inbox but recently when the automatic
compacting began, I lost all but a few messages of more than 3 months ago.
This is disastrous. The injuction of not storing things in the inbox is new
to me and should be more widely publicized.

As a separate item, how do I get the eliminated messages back?

Frank Presson

"PA Bear" wrote:

> It can't be disabled/turned off. It's there for your protection: Not compacting your OE store on a regular basis can have disastrous consequences (i.e., loss of your entire message store).
>
> Tip => Install this recent OE patch: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...2-98af2256ccc3 (WinXP SP2 only; KB911567 must be installed first; related KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918766)
>
> Among other things, the patch: (1) creates a backup of your message store when compacting manually and automatically; (2) when the compact is successful, the backup is moved to Recycle Bin; (3) resets the automatic CompactCount to zero (0) when you compact manually.
>
> General OE Caveats:
>
> - 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.
>
> - Do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place (WinXP SP2 only).
>
> - Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
> --
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>
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
>
> Inside Outlook Express
> http://www.insideoe.com
>
>
> GTowner wrote:
> > Title says it all. How can I rid the constant annoying popup in Outlook
> > Express wanting to free up disk space and compact messages. This is a little
> > ridiculous in the era of huge hard drives