Michael12- That's pretty bizarre, but let me take a stab at the permissions thing...
When TB does a purge/compress it creates a copy of the mail folder to hold the result, then deletes the original when the database compression is successful. It seems that, given your configuration, XP isn't granting implicit user rights to new files created in the shared folders. So even though the files have the same name after the compression they're actually new files and therefore have the default permissions assigned. I think you'll have to come up with a different scheme for allowing / restricting access. I don't have this problem on my win2k server, but then I haven't tried to restrict access to the folders... that's the point of making them shared, no? -Mark Wieder Using The Bat! v1.63 Beta/7 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 -- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
