Re: MS Bloatware

[David Johnson]

I think all you need to do is hold the option while starting OE to get 
a dialog box asking if you want to delete the "database" or whatever. I 
haven't used it for a couple years, but that's what I remember.

On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Jason wrote:

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:52:58 +0000
Subject: MS Bloatware


I am writing this message in Outlook Express 5.02 on my aged 7100/80.


In the Outlook folder I found a file called 'messages' which was a 
massive
300MB plus some. Thinking this the culprit I had a clear out of all 
the
message folders in Outlook and deleted all the ancient an irrelevant
messages, many of which had attachments and deleted the lot. This 
took ages
while the 7100 chuntered away first moving files into the Deleted 
Items
folder and then once more by permanently deleting everything from 
within the
folder. I must have removed 95% of the messages and I only have the 
most
recent relevant folders and files and zilch in the Deleted Items. Yet 
the
message folder is still 300MB!
While I don't use Outlook for my email (I check it on an SE/30 and am
guessing it won't run), I'm going to guess that it acts as most modern
email programs do and puts all the messages into a database file, which
is saved as one item on the hard drive (if I understand this right). 
When
you erase the messages, is it possible that it just zeroed out the 
areas
in the database that contained the messages, and not decreased the
database size? Perhaps there's a utility within the program that you 
can
resize the database? If not, if you trash the preferences (after 
backing
up your messages and drafts, and addy book of course), maybe the 
program
will remake a new database file that you could import this info back
into.

I'd definately wait to hear from someone more experienced in this 
before
trying that last step. That's based on how Claris Emailer works, and 
may
or probably not work in Outlook.

Hopefully someone with more knowledge on this subject will read this
thread and go "Oh yeah, now I remember, this is how you do that:"
J White

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