Compacting microsoft outlook

If you compact manually, at your convenience, this will also set the counter back to zero. 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: www. At the moment I just decline the compact request when I close Outlook Express.

Regards, Dick. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Is XP completely up to date patch wise?

What folder does the compacting hang on? Hi Bruce,. Yes XP is up to date, it was reinstalled a month ago. The problem happened on 4 different email folders before I stopped accepting the compact request. Thanks, Dick. In reply to DickAHill's post on November 6, Please state the Error Message.

Please list which mail folders are affected. What Anti-Virus do you use? In reply to MethylPropyl's post on November 6, Locate messages, people, and documents. Backed by enterprise-grade security Outlook works around the clock to help protect your privacy and keep your inbox free of clutter. Protection delivered by the same tools Microsoft uses for business customers. Data encryption in your mailbox and after email is sent. Automatic deactivation of unsafe links that contain phishing scams, viruses, or malware.

Premium Ransomware detection and recovery for your important files in OneDrive. It was sitting at just under 8 gig, and I couldn't get my Maxtor drive to accept something that large in one bite.

So, I dutifully created several new. I now only have around 2 gig in my original mailarchive. My challenge is that the job has been running perhaps "walking" would be more accurate If I hit the "Cancel" very tempting , will it just stop any additional compacting and pick up where it left off when I restart the "Compact Now", or will it insist on re-inflating? Windows Explorer is showing a steady shrinking 7. Unless somebody responds quickly and I really don't expect anybody to do so It stops. It shouldn't corrupt it - compacting is just freeing up white space and it stops and starts on it's own all the time.

This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. I guess that I'll keep the laptop running in the car, and let the Compact just keep chugging along. And being curious , I'll probably take a backup of another.

Because I will, without doubt, run into this again in another 3 years! The file behavior certainly suggests a process that is recoverable.