OutlookExpress-CompactingMessages

[Jon]

Compact Do not Ask Again is not in my Registry.
That key must be before SP 2.

Possibly because you've not yet opened and closed Outlook Express 100 times,
using that particular identity (?)
The key is created (in the "Dont Show Dialogs" subkey of the "5.0" key) when
you check the "Don't show this dialog again" checkbox, in response to the
compacting dialog box, after the 100th closure of Outlook Express.

You may be able to cause its creation, by changing the "Compact Check Count"
key to 99 (click on "Decimal" radio button first), and then opening and
closing Outlook Express one or two times. [or if you prefer, just open and
close Outlook Express the required number of times, without changing the
registry]

Background Compaction is in two unused Identities, but not in the Identity
that I use.

Yeah, that is odd

Not compacting will eventually get the message store in trouble.

Yeah sure, the option to compact manually, at the time of your choosing,
remains

Jon

 

[PA Bear]

Are you compacting use the button on OE Tool bar?

 

[PA Bear]

I've read and am fully familiar with my colleague's article, Jon. Automatic
Compacting in WinXP SP2 and Win2K03 cannot be disabled. Messing with OE or
the Registry to try to disable it, or attempting to close OE via Task
Manager or shutting down while Automatic Compacting is occurring can lead to
corruption in the store and loss of messages.
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Jon wrote:

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Bear

No.

However, I have also now concluded that manual compacting does not reset
the count. What a PITA the revised version of automatic compacting is!
For me it is worse than what it replaced!

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Gerry

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[Alias]

I haven't had any problems with it and it has run some twenty times so far.

The danger is that if it is running and the power goes off, you can lose
messages. I hope the next version, if there is one, does not have this
"feature".

Alias

 

[R. McCarty]

I don't understand why OE doesn't make a backup prior to the
folder compression. Personally, I have a little script that runs on
a 2-day schedule that copies .Dbx modules to a store folder. It
doesn't happen frequently, but every now and then I'll have some
corruption in an Outlook Express data folder.

 

[PA Bear]

Windows Mail (WinVista mail client) will have such backup protection.