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Outlook Express Compacting
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I am regularly prompted to compact OE on exiting, however, every time I click yes it goes through the proceedure and then shows a dialogue box saying "this folder is currentlu in use by another application". I am worried that I may lose emails if the compacting is not done, can anyone help?
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Don't worry, you shouldn't lose any emails. Compacting just means that they will take up less space on your hard disk. I haven't used Outlook Express myself for a while, but I seem to remember there being a menu option to compact files. You could try that, perhaps after restarting OE.0
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