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Old 03-23-2007
Justin
 

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Re: "Windows Mail can compact the message store"
"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "Justin" <None@None.com> wrote in message
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>> 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.

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>
> I don't see how to compact the database yourself, and deleting it must be
> done in both locations and then the rebuilding causes me problems with
> duplicate messages.


Dups - That's odd. No problems here.

I believe by default WM will compact every 100 runs. Change it to 1 and
exit. Then put it back.

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