OE6 compacting messages nag box

[Alias]

Agreed. My message store is typically 10-20 mb, so whether that is 1%
compacted or 50% compacted is neither here nor there.

Compacting has nothing whatsoever to do with how large your hard drive
is. Nothing.

Alias

 

[Jon]

I was more than a little surprised to hear the following from "Alias"

Compacting has nothing whatsoever to do with how large your hard drive is.
Nothing.

Alias

It does when you have to hang around for 20-30 seconds twiddling your thumbs
waiting for 10mb worth of files to be processed. If you could easily make
20-30 backups of your whole message store in a few seconds (on even the
smallest modern day drive) , then such delays should be completely
unnecessary. Compacting is still needed sure, but there are probably better
ways of doing it, as I've suggested in my other post.

 

[PA Bear]

It does when you have to hang around for 20-30 seconds twiddling your
thumbs
waiting for 10mb worth of files to be processed. If you could easily make
20-30 backups of your whole message store in a few seconds (on even the
smallest modern day drive) , then such delays should be completely
unnecessary. Compacting is still needed sure, but there are probably
better
ways of doing it, as I've suggested in my other post.

WYSIWYG. The uncompacted size of your store /can/ be a problem and it's
independent of your HDD size. If you have a store that takes 20-30 seconds
to compact and you want to speed things up, move the better part of your
archive to another identity or Windows folder. Truth be told, OE wasn't
designed to work with such large stores.

[FWIW, my store's usually ~130MB and I compact it at the end of every day.
Compacting takes 30-45 seconds, in all.]

If you don't like it, get another Mail Client. OE6 in WinXP SP2 is the end
of the line for OE. No improvements or substantial changes will be made.
Period. As far as MS is concerned, you may as well be complaining about
Win95.