Messages in Outlook Express 5.0

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Paul Schiff - 16 Feb 2006 20:52 GMT

On my Mac (9.2), there is a file "Messages" which is located...

Hard Drive
Documents
Microsoft User Data
Identities
Main Identity
Messages

The file is now 835.3 MB. I would like to reduce the size of this file. I
have deleted nearly half of my saved messages (and their attachments) but
the size of the file didn't change. As an experiment, I tried dragging the
file to the desktop and restarting Outlook Express. A new "messages" file is
established and of the messages appear but I am impaired in opening some of
them. When I replaced the new file with the old "messages" file, I was again
able to open all messages.

Is there a way of purging this file so that it relates to only the messages
saved?

Paul Schiff

p.schiff@snet.net

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TG Online (MVP) - 17 Feb 2006 08:24 GMT

> On my Mac (9.2), there is a file "Messages" which is located...
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> p.schiff@snet.net

Compact the database, that should do the trick...

<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tg.online/keyboard/oe5_database.html>

HTH,

Ricky

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