compacting outlook express......

[airpix]

When Outlook Express is compacting folders the program says it's
copying folders. Does anyone know if these copied flders are actually
stored somewhere (taking up hard drive space) and if so , where?

Thanks, Airpix

 

[JS]

No they don't take additional space, the compacting process creates new
files for each folder and then deletes the old un-compacted files.

JS

 

[Ricky]

For more info have a look at the info in the red box on this page..

www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

 

[Poprivet]

When Outlook Express is compacting folders the program says it's
copying folders. Does anyone know if these copied flders are actually
stored somewhere (taking up hard drive space) and if so , where?

Thanks, Airpix

That's the program copying your original email folders to the Recycle Bin.
That's one of the recent updates that came in. It was made to do that so if
the Compact process screwed up, one could still retrieve their folders from
the Recycle Bin. It's an added level of protection since compacting is so
easy to screw up.

HTH
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[Poprivet]

No they don't take additional space, the compacting process creates
new files for each folder and then deletes the old un-compacted files.

JS

No, it does not. When you see that copying message it's copying files to
the Recycle Bin. It's up to YOU to empty the Recycle Bin. And yes, they do
take extra space until you empty the recycle bin. They also do not get
automatically deleted.

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[Poprivet]

For more info have a look at the info in the red box on this page..

www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

Unless it's updated to cover the latest updte changes for OE, it won't help
answer the question. I glanced at it and it seems to be needing update.

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[Ricky]

This is the part I was refering to.
.. When OE does the "Compact All" now (whether initiated by the user or
due to the 100 closings prompt), OE makes a copy of the OE message store
and places it into the recycle bin. The OE folders are given the file
extension of "bak". If the compaction fails and results in corruption of
the message store, then the user should be able to rename the "bak" back
to "dbx" and copy it back into the OE message store location to restore
the backed up file and the lost messages.

 

[JS]

You are correct. Actually two files end up in the Recycle bin for each
folder name (myfolder.dbx and myfolder.bak) and newsgroup name. Both files
in the Recycle Bin (.dbx and .bak) are the same size so you end up with
double the space being consumed. But the size of a recycle bin can be set to
meet each user's needs and contents deleted periodically if need be.

I my case I use Sync Toy to make a backup of the Outlook Express folders to
another drive so what I typically see in the recycle bin are the results of
Sync Toy doing it's job and never noticed the results of a compacting
operation.

JS

 

[airpix]

Thanks to all, you answered my question and were a great help.

Airpix

 

[JS]

You're Welcome.

JS

Thanks to all, you answered my question and were a great help.

Airpix