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Old June 1st, 2004, 01:29 AM
Oscar E. Desmonteix
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Default Cannot create new folders

My OE has three identities, "JR", "OD" and "VR".

"OD" has 268 folders, occupying 61 MB of HDD space.

"VR" has 21 folders, occupying 116 MB of HDD space

"JR" has 17 folders, occupying 1.5 MB of HDD space.

OE is V6 and Windows is ME (no laugths, please). Both are
up to date.

When in "OD", I was not able create new folders. Deleting
old folders and messages, compacting all folders and
rebooting the PC bought me some space. However, the
problem returns quite fast.

What would be the best strategy to avoid this problem,
which I believe is caused by OE not being able to handle
so many folders and/or messages.

Thanx!



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Old June 1st, 2004, 06:09 AM
PA Bear
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Default Cannot create new folders

Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

Disable Background Compacting and frequently perform a manual compact of all
OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm.

Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.

Then...

Take Out the Trash (#4)
http://aumha.org/a/health.htm
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

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Oscar E. Desmonteix wrote:
My OE has three identities, "JR", "OD" and "VR".

"OD" has 268 folders, occupying 61 MB of HDD space.

"VR" has 21 folders, occupying 116 MB of HDD space

"JR" has 17 folders, occupying 1.5 MB of HDD space.

OE is V6 and Windows is ME (no laugths, please). Both are
up to date.

When in "OD", I was not able create new folders. Deleting
old folders and messages, compacting all folders and
rebooting the PC bought me some space. However, the
problem returns quite fast.

What would be the best strategy to avoid this problem,
which I believe is caused by OE not being able to handle
so many folders and/or messages.

Thanx!


 




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