want to disable compacting
Henry Grech-Cini
I had a recent disaster involving compacting and loosing 20000 emails! Disc
space is not a problem so I would like to stop Outlook Express asking me if
I want to compact my messages. Is there a way to turn off this dialog box.
Each time I tick the box that says "do not ask again" and click cancel it
comes next time the outlook express closes.
Best regards
Bruce Hagen
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.
You can't turn it off, but you can reset the counter to 0, (zero).
Go to: Start>Run>Regedit>OK and find this key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID for Identity}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\5.0. In the right hand pane and find *Compact Check Count* and set
the value to 0, (zero). This will reset the prompt, and you won't see it
again for another 100 closings.
However, if you do not compact your folders from time to time, you stand a
good chance of your .dbx files becoming corrupt and very possibly lose your
messages.
Or: Steve Cochran has added a button in his new version of OE Tool that will
not only Compact All Folders, but at the same time, resets the "Compact
Check Count" to zero whenever you compact manually. You will see the prompt
again if you do not compact before 100 closings.
It is still advised to check Work Offline before you compact.
Please see this about compacting your folders:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact
and:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - (IE/OE)
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Bruce Hagen
A general warning if you don't want to lose your messages in the future:
Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually
become corrupted. 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.
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