What are the advantages of that program?

You can compact the DB yourself. To repair the DB, seems to me you are
better off just deleting it and letting it rebuild. Even with 7,000+ emails
it didn't take very long.

Clean blank files?

Thanks




"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> When you delete messages the space isn't necessarily freed up. By
>> compacting the store occasionally, every 100 shutdowns by default, it
>> keeps the store smaller than it otherwise would be. This is a good thing
>> BTW.
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> Actually, WinMail does not keep the message itself in the database. It
> does store all sorts of information about the message there, though, and
> that space is not recovered until the database is compacted. Steve
> Cochran has written a nice little free program dealing with the database,
> WMUtil: http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/Default.aspx
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> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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