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Thread ID: 71764 2006-08-16 00:15:00 A small problem jboy (9468) Press F1
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478772 2006-08-16 00:15:00 XP Home and Outlook Express.
When I close OE I get a box pop up telling me, 'To free up disk space, OE can compact messages. This may take up to a few minutes'. I do not want to take a few minites anywhere so how do I get rid of it please.
John
jboy (9468)
478773 2006-08-16 00:41:00 Unless you have an old, slow computer or lots of emails or both it will not take several minutes. The messages do need to be compacted but the preferable method is to do the following:

In OE go to File > Work offline then File > Folder > Compact all folders.

When that is done go to File > Work offline again to reset OE back to online mode.

After that OE should not bother you to compact messages again for a while.
FoxyMX (5)
478774 2006-08-16 02:14:00 Did as requested but it don't work, I still get asked to compact
J
jboy (9468)
478775 2006-08-16 11:46:00 Only other suggestion I have is to switch to "Offline mode" as detailed previously, close OE and when it asks to compact allow it to do so. Re-open OE and put back on online mode afterwards.

MS apps can be so annoying sometimes...
FoxyMX (5)
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