If mine gets "bloated", I'll try that. But I'm not that concerned with the size problem. What gets me is how the outbox.dbx file shows data (even though it's empty) and from 3 YEARS ago....and more so, email that I never sent! -Clint
God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Dougherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "OrpheusComputing.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ----- 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 =====================================================
