Kevin J. Nielsen wrote:

> Thank you for your response. It is nice to know I can compact manually if
> I
> want to. However, I would still like the decision to be mine. I wish to
> have a choice but Microsoft gives me no choice. I guess it was in one of
> the updates I received from Microsoft. Thank you, that gives me a clue, I
> could start uninstalling the updates until the problem goes away.
>
> Keven

The reason it was changed to automatic was that if you do not compact OE
folders on a regular basis (and the setting for the automatic compaction is
having launched OE 100 times - so if you only open it once a day then
automatic compaction is only offered just over every THREE months.....)
there is grave danger of folder corruption.....and there were many posts on
the OE groups complaining about sudden corruption of folders and loss of
data, all due to not compacting on a regular basis.