Compacting emails: Where are they?

As we know, in Vista every 100 or so emails, when you close the application,
we are asked if we want to compact the emails. It won't stop asking until
you finally break down and say OK.

Where the heck are the emails going/being stored?

It seems to erase the archieve, or hide it anyway, and I can't for the life
of me find any emails prior to whatever date I last agreed to let it compact.

Help!

Thanks.

Tom

"Tom in Santa Barbara" <Tom in Santa Barbara@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:B447C902-78AA-4624-B012-B16CB13F868E@microsoft.com...
> As we know, in Vista every 100 or so emails, when you close the
> application,
> we are asked if we want to compact the emails. It won't stop asking until
> you finally break down and say OK.
>
> Where the heck are the emails going/being stored?
>
> It seems to erase the archieve, or hide it anyway, and I can't for the
> life
> of me find any emails prior to whatever date I last agreed to let it
> compact.
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tom

Compacting does/should not remove any messages. It removes wasted space that
deleted mail leaves behind.

Check your settings at View Menu>Current View>ensure that the top and bottom
options only are selected.
If that is not the problem then get back to this thread.

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS] UK

Compaction has little or nothing to do with emails.
All it does is remove the 'dead' space in the database resulting from
deleted emails. You can think of the database as in index or group
of pointers to where the actual emails are stored.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


"Tom in Santa Barbara" <Tom in Santa Barbara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B447C902-78AA-4624-B012-B16CB13F868E@microsoft.com...
> As we know, in Vista every 100 or so emails, when you close the application,
> we are asked if we want to compact the emails. It won't stop asking until
> you finally break down and say OK.
>
> Where the heck are the emails going/being stored?
>
> It seems to erase the archieve, or hide it anyway, and I can't for the life
> of me find any emails prior to whatever date I last agreed to let it compact.

Thanks Mac,

I'll try this. But the prior emails are certainly not visible anymore. I
just made the assumption the two were connected.

"mac" wrote:

>
> "Tom in Santa Barbara" <Tom in Santa Barbara@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote in message news:B447C902-78AA-4624-B012-B16CB13F868E@microsoft.com...
> > As we know, in Vista every 100 or so emails, when you close the
> > application,
> > we are asked if we want to compact the emails. It won't stop asking until
> > you finally break down and say OK.
> >
> > Where the heck are the emails going/being stored?
> >
> > It seems to erase the archieve, or hide it anyway, and I can't for the
> > life
> > of me find any emails prior to whatever date I last agreed to let it
> > compact.
> >
> > Help!
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Tom
>
> Compacting does/should not remove any messages. It removes wasted space that
> deleted mail leaves behind.
>
> Check your settings at View Menu>Current View>ensure that the top and bottom
> options only are selected.
> If that is not the problem then get back to this thread.
>
> --
> Regards Steve.
> MS-MVP. OE. [DTS] UK
>

That makes sense Gary. I just made the assumption that Vista (as opposed to
XP) must be reloacting the emails somewhere. Because, they are vanishing.
And that never happened with Outlook/XP when I compacted.

So, I still don't know where the emails are going.

Tom

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

> Compaction has little or nothing to do with emails.
> All it does is remove the 'dead' space in the database resulting from
> deleted emails. You can think of the database as in index or group
> of pointers to where the actual emails are stored.
>
> --
> Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]
>
>
> "Tom in Santa Barbara" <Tom in Santa Barbara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B447C902-78AA-4624-B012-B16CB13F868E@microsoft.com...
> > As we know, in Vista every 100 or so emails, when you close the application,
> > we are asked if we want to compact the emails. It won't stop asking until
> > you finally break down and say OK.
> >
> > Where the heck are the emails going/being stored?
> >
> > It seems to erase the archieve, or hide it anyway, and I can't for the life
> > of me find any emails prior to whatever date I last agreed to let it compact.
>
>
>