"Gordon" <gbplinux******.com.invalid> wrote in message
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: 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.

Actually, the Compact Folder Count is not changed until you close OE or
close an Identity by switching Identities.
Each Identity keeps its own Compact Folder Count.
Compacting is only done for the current Identity.
So if you compact before closing OE, you won't get the compaction message.
--
Ronald Sommer