Disable folders compacting on Outlook Express

[Guest Tyler Durden]

Is there any registry tweak to disable the folders compression at 100th

execution?

 

Kind regards.

[Guest Bruce Hagen]

Re: Disable folders compacting on Outlook Express

 

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"Tyler Durden" <abuse@antispam.org> wrote in message

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> Is there any registry tweak to disable the folders compression at 100th

> execution?

>

> Kind regards.

 

 

No, there is no tweak and you will regret not compacting at some point.

Please read on.

 

Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?:

http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact

 

About File Corruption:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

 

Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE functioning well

and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you don't. When

you delete, or move messages, the space they had used remains until you

compact.

 

***Never touch anything until the compacting is finished.***

 

See:

http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

 

With SP2, automatic background compacting was removed due to problems it

caused. Now you will get a prompt to compact after 100 OE closings, which

you should do, and don't touch anything until it has finished. If you

compact manually, at your convenience, this will also set the counter back

to zero. See this for more information:

http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact

 

If you are fully patched, you will also now see a copy of your dbx files

being copied to the Recycle Bin as BAK files. Should something go awry when

compacting, the messages can easily be restored from this backup. A manual

compact will also reset the counter in the registry back to zero now.

 

For more info, see the information outlined in red here:

http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

 

To keep things running smooth, and for faster compacting:

 

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become

corrupt and you may lose mail. Create your own user defined folders for

storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder

regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as

empty as is feasible.

 

And backup often.

 

Backup and Restore:

 

http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/

 

http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

--

 

Bruce Hagen

MS-MVP Outlook Express

Imperial Beach, CA

[Guest BennyVHansen@gmail.com]

Re: Disable folders compacting on Outlook Express

 

Why would I want to compact if I have zero emails stored? I don't use

OE to send or retrieve any emails, only to print ".EML" files.

I print hundreds of emails at a time and these ".EML" files are not

imported to a folder in OE so I should NEVER need to compact.

 

I understand the need for compacting but the way this is triggered

(100 OE closing) is a lousy way to do it. There should be an option

to disable it, even if it's a one-time registry tweak, or checking #

of emails sent/received since last compact, or number of emails

stored, etc... anything would be better than the 100 OE closing

trigger.

 

Since OE does not have a "print" context menu option (you can't right

click on an ".EML" file and select "Print") I've had to create a

program to automate printing hundreds of emails anat a time and this

annoying compact nag is throwing it off every 100 times.

 

I've seen some people mentioning a possible registry tweak that

involves resetting "Compact Check Count" to 0 so I guess I'll try

looking into implementing this into my program but what a hassle.

 

Sorry, just had to rant.

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Disable folders compacting on Outlook Express

 

 

 

BennyVHansen@gmail.com wrote:

> Why would I want to compact if I have zero emails stored? I don't use

> OE to send or retrieve any emails, only to print ".EML" files.

> I print hundreds of emails at a time and these ".EML" files are not

> imported to a folder in OE so I should NEVER need to compact.

>

> I understand the need for compacting but the way this is triggered

> (100 OE closing) is a lousy way to do it. There should be an option

> to disable it, even if it's a one-time registry tweak, or checking #

> of emails sent/received since last compact, or number of emails

> stored, etc... anything would be better than the 100 OE closing

> trigger.

>

> Since OE does not have a "print" context menu option (you can't right

> click on an ".EML" file and select "Print") I've had to create a

> program to automate printing hundreds of emails anat a time and this

> annoying compact nag is throwing it off every 100 times.

>

> I've seen some people mentioning a possible registry tweak that

> involves resetting "Compact Check Count" to 0 so I guess I'll try

> looking into implementing this into my program but what a hassle.

>

> Sorry, just had to rant

 

Vista doesn't have Outlook Express.

[Guest Steve Cochran]

Re: Disable folders compacting on Outlook Express

 

You are preaching to the choir. Unfortunately, no one at MS who has any

say in such matters pays any attention to this or other newsgroups.

 

If you are invoking the IStoreNamespace, then if you leave it open for the

duration of the printing (as opposed to opening and closing it with each

message) and then close it, then the compact check count will only be

incremented once.

 

This applies to Windows Mail in Vista as well.

 

steve

 

<BennyVHansen@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:f8c18fe5-eec8-42ba-88a0-351d1db2a223@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com...

> Why would I want to compact if I have zero emails stored? I don't use

> OE to send or retrieve any emails, only to print ".EML" files.

> I print hundreds of emails at a time and these ".EML" files are not

> imported to a folder in OE so I should NEVER need to compact.

>

> I understand the need for compacting but the way this is triggered

> (100 OE closing) is a lousy way to do it. There should be an option

> to disable it, even if it's a one-time registry tweak, or checking #

> of emails sent/received since last compact, or number of emails

> stored, etc... anything would be better than the 100 OE closing

> trigger.

>

> Since OE does not have a "print" context menu option (you can't right

> click on an ".EML" file and select "Print") I've had to create a

> program to automate printing hundreds of emails anat a time and this

> annoying compact nag is throwing it off every 100 times.

>

> I've seen some people mentioning a possible registry tweak that

> involves resetting "Compact Check Count" to 0 so I guess I'll try

> looking into implementing this into my program but what a hassle.

>

> Sorry, just had to rant.

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Disable folders compacting on Outlook Express

 

Ideally you would have begun a new thread about /your/ specific issues.

 

Are you running WinXP SP2 or WinXP SP3?

 

How often are you seeing the prompt to compact OE folders?

--

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net

DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

 

BennyVHansen@gmail.com wrote:

> Why would I want to compact if I have zero emails stored? I don't use

> OE to send or retrieve any emails, only to print ".EML" files.

> I print hundreds of emails at a time and these ".EML" files are not

> imported to a folder in OE so I should NEVER need to compact.

>

> I understand the need for compacting but the way this is triggered

> (100 OE closing) is a lousy way to do it. There should be an option

> to disable it, even if it's a one-time registry tweak, or checking #

> of emails sent/received since last compact, or number of emails

> stored, etc... anything would be better than the 100 OE closing

> trigger.

>

> Since OE does not have a "print" context menu option (you can't right

> click on an ".EML" file and select "Print") I've had to create a

> program to automate printing hundreds of emails anat a time and this

> annoying compact nag is throwing it off every 100 times.

>

> I've seen some people mentioning a possible registry tweak that

> involves resetting "Compact Check Count" to 0 so I guess I'll try

> looking into implementing this into my program but what a hassle.

>

> Sorry, just had to rant.

[Guest Michael Santovec]

Re: Disable folders compacting on Outlook Express

 

Starting with SP2, you get the prompt to compact after 100 closings of

OE and every one thereafter until you compact. SP3 It changes the way

the compact count gets incremented. With SP2, only closing the main

program caused the count to get incremented. But with SP3, if the main

OE program is closed, every time a DBX, EML or NWS file is accessed by

an OE component, the count gets incremented. This includes double

clicking an EML file or sending an e-mail from another program (if OE is

the default for either) or a number of indexing programs such as Windows

Desktop Search or Nero Scout.

 

In your case of printing EML files, having the main OE program open

while printing will stop the count from being incremented.

 

--

 

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

 

 

 

<BennyVHansen@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:f8c18fe5-eec8-42ba-88a0-351d1db2a223@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com...

> Why would I want to compact if I have zero emails stored? I don't use

> OE to send or retrieve any emails, only to print ".EML" files.

> I print hundreds of emails at a time and these ".EML" files are not

> imported to a folder in OE so I should NEVER need to compact.

>

> I understand the need for compacting but the way this is triggered

> (100 OE closing) is a lousy way to do it. There should be an option

> to disable it, even if it's a one-time registry tweak, or checking #

> of emails sent/received since last compact, or number of emails

> stored, etc... anything would be better than the 100 OE closing

> trigger.

>

> Since OE does not have a "print" context menu option (you can't right

> click on an ".EML" file and select "Print") I've had to create a

> program to automate printing hundreds of emails anat a time and this

> annoying compact nag is throwing it off every 100 times.

>

> I've seen some people mentioning a possible registry tweak that

> involves resetting "Compact Check Count" to 0 so I guess I'll try

> looking into implementing this into my program but what a hassle.

>

> Sorry, just had to rant.