Excellent post, a keeper. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "rj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 12:41 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: o e mystry question!
> > Compacting Outlook Express - WorldStart Computer Tips and Computer Help > > WorldStart.Com Computer Tips & Help > > Tip #3319 - Compacting Outlook Express > > Q: > I use Outlook Express and an annoying little thing started happening > recently. Every time I close OE down, a message pops up that says "To free > up disk > space, Outlook Express can compact your messages. This may take up to a > few > minutes." What does this mean exactly and should I do it or not? Please > help! > > A: > This is an excellent question. I too use Outlook Express here at the > office > and this same thing happened to me awhile back as well. I really didn't > know > why it just suddenly started happening and to be honest with you, for > quite > some time, I just hit Cancel on the pop up message. I just wanted to get > rid > of it. Well, come to find out, I should have listened to the message. Let > me > explain. > > We all delete e-mails from our Inbox on a daily basis, don't we? Then most > of us probably go on to delete those e-mails out of the Deleted Items > folder > as well. That way, they'll all be gone for good, right? Well, not exactly. > Outlook Express works in the same way as your hard drive when you're > trying > to delete something from your regular system. Even though we think we've > deleted the information completely, it sticks around until it is covered > up > with > something else. > > So, when you delete the e-mails from your Deleted Items folder, they > actually go to the Outlook Express store folder (the .dbx folder) and even > though you > can't see them, they are still there, taking up space. This is when > compacting steps in. When you see the compact message, you may think it's > just going > to cut down your e-mails in size a little, but do nothing else. Well, in > all > actuality, when you compact, the e-mails that are now in your store folder > are removed. This then allows for extra e-mail storage space and more than > likely, faster e-mail service in the way OE opens, closes and runs in > general. > > Now, Outlook Express will automatically compact your messages for you > after > the 100th time of opening and closing the program. As you can see from the > above > information, it is essential that you let the compact process go, in order > to keep your e-mail program working correctly. So, when the compacting > starts, > don't interrupt it. Just let it finish. It should only take a few minutes > and then your Outlook Express will be up and running just like new. > > Okay, so what if you get the message when you're trying to shut your > computer down for the day? It's not really in your best interest to wait > around for > it to complete, so what else can you do? Well, you can do the compacting > at > any time and when it's best for you. You may want to do it on a lunch > break > or when you're not going to be using your computer for awhile. > > To get started, go to File and choose Work Offline. This will ensure that > no > new messages come through while the compact is running. You should also > turn > off any other programs you have going, but you can keep your firewall and > antivirus software on. Now, you should also back up your e-mail before you > begin > this process, just in case you happen to lose any important e-mails. This > is > up to you, but read > here > for a quick way to get the backup done. Once you're done with the backup, > go > to File, Folder and choose Compact All Folders. Again, once that starts, > don't > mess with it until it's done. Just let it run and like I said before, it > should only take a few minutes. > > Now, there might be some times when you just want to compact one folder at > a > time. That's no problem either. To do that, select the folder you want to > compact > (Inbox, Outbox, etc.) by just clicking and highlighting it in the left > side > panel on the main page of your Outlook Express. Next, go to File, Folder > and > select Compact. That will then compact only that one single folder. This > should be done if you make big changes to a particular folder. > > Also, just in case you were wondering; when you do a complete compact on > all > of your folders, Outlook Express starts with all of your e-mail and news > folders > and it finishes up with the store .dbx folder, which is where all your > deleted e-mails sit. On a final note, you should make it a monthly routine > to compact > all of your folders, because it really will help with your e-mail's speed > and performance and you can't beat that! > > ~ Erin > > (Copyright 2004 > WorldStart, > Inc) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 12:23 PM > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: o e mystry question! > > >> >> Hi,, >> When you delete a mesage from the deleted items folder, it is deleted >> perminantly. >> >> Jeff >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Cathy Boynton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Friday, April 13, 2007 12:06 pm >> Subject: [JAWS-Users] o e mystry question! >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > >> > I'm a bit curious here on when we delete all emails from the >> > deleted >> > folder are they gone from computer completely or are they >> > somewhere in the >> > computer taking up space in hard drive? What I am really asking >> > is, do I >> > need do something else to get rid of all emails after I delete >> > them from the >> > folder? Thanks >> > >> > >> > > >> >> > >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ In order to contact the management team simply fill out the following form found at: http://www.jaws-users.com/contact.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JAWS Users List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jaws-users-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
