Re: Compacting in windows Mail

"hawthorn" <hawthorn.38ei7c@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> I have searched for and read the threads on Windows Mail offering to
> compact the message store. I also gather that is a good thing! I also
> read where it will not affect your messages, they will be safe.
>
> Yet someone suggested to back up your email first. Is this necessary?
>
> a second question, a more general WM one; what is the best way to make
> backup copies of my email messages sent/received etc? Do I back up the
> folder or each individual message (hardly..)? I knew how to do it in
> OE6, labourious though it was, copying the folders with the .dbx
> message extensions. Now in W Mail we dont have .dbx so is the precess
> different?


Backing up is always a good idea.
Yes, the process is different. Each message is stored as an individual EML
file, but there's a database that keeps track of them and this is what is
compacted. If it isn't compacted WinMail gets slower and slower.

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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
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