Compact Not working

[Mike T]

So not that we can not manually compact our databases and have to wait for
it to decide it wants to do it after X amount of closes. Everytime mine
tries to compact it runs for a couple of minutes and then pops up a dialog
box that says Windows mail has Stopped working. and it restarts mail, exit,
repeat........... so it won't compact.

I have a HUGE amount of mail (about 200 folders and probably close to half a
million messages), plus all the newsgroups I subscribe to.

Here is the event log entry (and why the hell does UAC prompt me when I am
running Event viewer, its not like event viewer is going to make changes to
the system. ARGH!!!!!!)

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 2/15/2007 7:07:55 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: fastp4
Description:
Faulting application WinMail.exe, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp
0x4549b0f9, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000,
exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00000001, process id 0x858,
application start time 0x01c7515c6a8a5981.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-02-16T00:07:55.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>2261</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>fastp4</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>WinMail.exe</Data>
<Data>6.0.6000.16386</Data>
<Data>4549b0f9</Data>
<Data>unknown</Data>
<Data>0.0.0.0</Data>
<Data>00000000</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>00000001</Data>
<Data>858</Data>
<Data>01c7515c6a8a5981</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

 

[Steve Cochran]

Try compacting with my WMUtil program: www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/

Also make sure you don't have antivirus set to scan email. See
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

steve