Compact

[Richard]

Running Vista Mail, then close it, a pop ask to compact,
said yes, its get about half way, then tell me that Vista Mail crash,
and restarts Vista Mail.

I have tried, reboot, shutting off Virus Apps, and still,
several time, it will ask me to compact when closing vist mail,
and I say yes... but still crashes, and restarts vista mail.


Anyone?

Thanks !
Rich

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Try the database repair options in the WMUtil program:
http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/Default.aspx

 

[Richard]

Have try this 3x, and still it does not work,
is there something else I can do?

Thanks
Rich


Try the database repair options in the WMUtil program:
http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/Default.aspx

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The only other suggestion I have is to upgrade to the less buggy
Windows Live Mail:

http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[Steve Cochran]

Go to Start | Search and type msconfig and disable all startup items and
non-MS services and then reboot. Then open Winmail and close it so it
prompts and let it compact then. See if that works. Then you can re-enable
the startup items.

steve

 

[Richard]

Hey Gary,

Getting allot of those DEP errors, where it closes down the program,
for Vista Mail.... SO I did install, Windows Live Mail, and it was choking
on 810, 000+ emails,
trying to import... got in this morning and had blue screen, error about
page memory..?

So, have a feeling, something went out of wack, with vista mail, and windows
live mail, windows search indexing,
and DEP... have 4 GB of Ram, but still there something wrong, even know I am
running,
Windows live Mail as of Now... had to shut of completely DEP.

Side note: could not even launch explorer, DEP would shut it down.
So, I going to do a re-install AGAIN. Boy Vista, got issues, let hope
service pack 2 fixes allot,


So, see you later - I hope <yikes>
Rick

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Yes, it sounds like your issue goes beyond a mail client program.

 

[Rick]

Go to Start | Search and type msconfig and disable all startup items and
non-MS services and then reboot. Then open Winmail and close it so it
prompts and let it compact then. See if that works. Then you can
re-enable the startup items.

steve

Thanks to all, for trying,
but when trying Windows Live Mail,
had the same problem, it would appear there is a Bug,
that never got fixed according to MS.


Google:
Another Bug In Compacting Protocol in Windows Live Mail DesktopThe
"Recover Unused Disk Space" function... Often, the user is told the
action cannot be performed because "Live Mail is still busy or another
program is ...
https://www.microsoft.com/communiti...microsoft.public.windows.live.mail...cb7c2c0a...
- Similar pages

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But, it would appear MS has killed that thread...<hmm>
I read it last week, and told of many issues, with compacting.
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So, I had to re-installed the OS, Again.
this time, I switch over to Thunderbird & Lightning Calender,
all 829,000+ emails are working just fine....

Heck, it both vista mail, and windows live mail suffered with this bug,
and some early chat talking about windows 7... please


Anyways... thought I would tell the group.
Cheer's

Richard