Clint, What I will do, is send all the emails to a new folder, delete the inbox and other folders and have them recreated. I like this method better rather than downloading another utility to do the same thing. Jeff VCR tips, electronics info & general interest. www.intrepid-video.com www.tech-repair.net www.thetoolcaddy.com www.9-11-2001tragedy.com ***********************************************************************
----- Original Message ----- From: "OrpheusComputing.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 2:43 AM Subject: Re: PCWorks: Outlook Express question 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: "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 =====================================================
