will not compact inbox no matter what!! tried everything. Please

thanks. I dragged it into separate folders. Every time I got greedy and
put too many messages in, it said it wouldn't move them. Finally I got it
divided and I compacted each. Then I coalesced them into 3 folders (it is
very inefficient to try to clear many folders of junk because when I sort by
name and get blocks of junk, I get rid of all at the same time. That is
defeated if they are spread in lots of folders). Thanks for all your help
Frank and Bruce!

Why does OE have this clunky way of working where it doesn't really clean
out the folder.... and it is so easily corrupted. Yes we should keep our
folders clean but.. I get 50-60 emails a day. It would be full time job to
try to keep on top of all the trash.... (and I am not counting the spam that
gets automatically filtered)



"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

"radman2020" wrote in message
...

ok... even if I put everything in a new inbox... I'll call it inbox
hold...
then I can't compact that one!! what should I do?


Don't put it all in the same folder.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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You're welcome, and glad its fixed.

If you want to get rid of junk mail that is interspersed with good mail,
uncheck the Preview Pane so you see more of your message headers at a time,
and while holding down the Ctrl key, click on each junk message. This will
highlight any you click on and then just click Delete.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"radman2020" wrote in message
...
thanks. I dragged it into separate folders. Every time I got greedy and
put too many messages in, it said it wouldn't move them. Finally I got it
divided and I compacted each. Then I coalesced them into 3 folders (it is
very inefficient to try to clear many folders of junk because when I sort
by
name and get blocks of junk, I get rid of all at the same time. That is
defeated if they are spread in lots of folders). Thanks for all your help
Frank and Bruce!

Why does OE have this clunky way of working where it doesn't really clean
out the folder.... and it is so easily corrupted. Yes we should keep our
folders clean but.. I get 50-60 emails a day. It would be full time job
to
try to keep on top of all the trash.... (and I am not counting the spam
that
gets automatically filtered)



"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

"radman2020" wrote in message
...

ok... even if I put everything in a new inbox... I'll call it inbox
hold...
then I can't compact that one!! what should I do?


Don't put it all in the same folder.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email.

"radman2020" wrote in message
...

Why does OE have this clunky way of working where it doesn't really clean
out the folder.... and it is so easily corrupted. Yes we should keep our
folders clean but.. I get 50-60 emails a day. It would be full time job
to
try to keep on top of all the trash.... (and I am not counting the spam
that
gets automatically filtered)


The MVPs have been complaining to Microsoft about the DBX file structure
since OE5 came out (1999?). Finally, Windows Mail in Vista does not use DBX
files. It is not without bugs, but it won't suddenly lose all of your
messages.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email.