This brings up an interesting question. Earlier I checked this on mine. I looked at my deleted.dbx file and it was 987k, and my outbox was 186k (I had clicked "off-line" at the time and had a message in the outbox, but it was only ~10k or so in size). I emptied them both, the deleted and outbox folders, compacted all folders' closed OE then checked the sizes gain and BOTH were 58.7k in size. Even though they got a lot smaller, I don't know why they were that large. Maybe that's the default smallest size they can be.
Now what I cannot understand is I just check their sizes just now, and they were 'bloated' again, so I opened 'outbox' in WordPad to see what was there (and my outbox IS empty!) Well to my amazement, there were emails listed that I NEVER EVEN SENT!! Some even almost THREE YEARS old! How can this be happening? (ME & OE6). -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx Hello Jeff The link above will take you where you can download a wonderful little program DBXtract and it is free. It is very easy to use and will allow you to extract those messages that you want to keep and put them in a little white envelope in a folder or folders on your hard drive to access anytime you want. Then you will be able to delete those messages in your folders in Outlook Express...Hope this helps. Dorian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Dougherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I found out, even though I empty my deleted items folder, sent folder, etc., I do > not regain any space. > The DBX files are the same size. > The only way I was able to regain the same, was to delete the respective DBX file > and have it recreated. > I tried the compact function, but that didn't work. > Is there another way to regain the space these files are wasting? > I've seen all the functions under maintenance, but do not understand what some of > them do, if I deleted all the headers, remove all message bodies, etc.(sounds like > something I don't want to do). > I do have a lot of saved messages in different folders, that I don't want to lose. > I am using OE 6.0. > Thank you. > Jeff ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
