Outlook Express Backup Size Issue

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How come when you delete an email and check that all deleted emails in your
delete items folder be emptied on program closure deletes the emails in the
folder but the folder does not lose its size? i.e. I have an empty deleted
items folder where the .dbx folder in Windows Explorer says the folder size
is 65Mb. When I back up Outlook Express using a third party program it
creates a backup file that is 146Mb instead of 18Mb which is approximately
what it should be. And no, the My Documents folder is not included in the
backup file, that folder is unticked in the third party program.
 
Deekus said:
How come when you delete an email and check that all deleted emails
in your delete items folder be emptied on program closure deletes the
emails in the folder but the folder does not lose its size? i.e. I
have an empty deleted items folder where the .dbx folder in Windows
Explorer says the folder size is 65Mb. When I back up Outlook Express
using a third party program it creates a backup file that is 146Mb
instead of 18Mb which is approximately what it should be. And no, the
My Documents folder is not included in the backup file, that folder
is unticked in the third party program.
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You need to compact folders. File-Folder-Compact all folders.

HTH

BTW,
This newsgroup is for support of Outlook
97/98/2000/2002/2003 from the Office suite of products. Outlook
Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number. Good luck!
 
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