compacting outlook express......

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

"airpix" <jford DeleteThis @lesvants.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>

airpix wrote:
> 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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JS wrote:
> 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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> "airpix" <jford.DeleteThis@lesvants.com> wrote in message
> news:1180477660.399933.193940@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>> 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

Ricky wrote:
> 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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>
>
> "airpix" <jford.RemoveThis@lesvants.com> wrote in message
> news:1180477660.399933.193940@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>> 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

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.

"Poprivet" <poprivet RemoveThis @devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> Ricky wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Pop`
>
>
>>
>>
>> "airpix" <jford RemoveThis @lesvants.com> wrote in message
>> news:1180477660.399933.193940@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>> 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
>
>
>

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

"Poprivet" <poprivet.TakeThisOut@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> JS wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Pop`
>
>
>>
>> "airpix" <jford.TakeThisOut@lesvants.com> wrote in message
>> news:1180477660.399933.193940@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>> 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
>
>
>

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

Airpix



On May 29, 9:06 pm, "JS" <@> wrote:
> 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
>
> "Poprivet" <popri... RemoveThis @devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
>
> news:OKBvS1koHHA.5008@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
>
>
> > JS wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> > Pop`
>
> >> "airpix" <j... RemoveThis @lesvants.com> wrote in message
> >>news:1180477660.399933.193940@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> >>> 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- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

You're Welcome.

JS

"airpix" <jford.DeleteThis@lesvants.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks to all, you answered my question and were a great help.
>
> Airpix
>
>
>
> On May 29, 9:06 pm, "JS" <@> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> "Poprivet" <popri....DeleteThis@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
>>
>> news:OKBvS1koHHA.5008@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>
>>
>>
>> > JS wrote:
>> >> 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.
>>
>> > Pop`
>>
>> >> "airpix" <j....DeleteThis@lesvants.com> wrote in message
>> >>news:1180477660.399933.193940@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>> >>> 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- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
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