"Windows Mail can compact the message store"

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Not sure if my question is getting through so here goes again. After
compacting winmail I have lost a folder. Where can I find it. I did not
touch anything before completion. I am running vista home premium.
Thanks
Julia
 
Frank,
I need to keep a track of all of my messages/content/received/sent and when
I compact them they are removed are they not? If they are moved how do we
find where they are? Or do we have to save each email and reply separetly in
its own folder?

Greatly appreciate any help.
 
Willc said:
Frank,
I need to keep a track of all of my messages/content/received/sent and
when
I compact them they are removed are they not? If they are moved how do we
find where they are? Or do we have to save each email and reply separetly
in
its own folder?
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Compacting in WinMail only changes the database about messages, removing the
records about deleted messages. The actual messages are deleted when you
delete them. If neither you nor a misbehaving anti-virus program has
removed them they are still there in WinMail's store folder, although they
are hard to find because the file name for each piece of email is
meaningless to a human.

If you go to Tools | Options | Advanced | Maintenance | Store Folder WinMail
tells you where the messages are stored. From there instructions would
depend on exactly what you want to do.

I can't fit your last question into the context of the rest of your message?
 
About 2 weeks ago the
"pop up", came up came up when I closed windows mail. I clicked ok to
copact. Since the I still get the "pop up" everytime I close windows mail.
WHY ?
 
Hi Carol, the answers on this discussion page confuse me.. i have been
receiving the 'compact" msg as well.. i only have about 30 emails (sent and
rec'd) in my acct.. some of the answers listed refer to 7,000 messages before
this prompt shows up.. do the emails get erased or what???
grace
 
It seems to me that Frank and Richard are answering posts without answering
requests for assistance in PLAIN ENGLISH.. why the heck can't we just keep
our emails and not have to go thru 5 prompts in the systems in hopes of
locating compacted emails.. seems counter intuitive and not at all user
friendly.
grace
 
I don't know what you mean by "locating compacted emails".
WM/WLM offers to compact the message database every so many times you close
the program.
This does not delete any messages, it just eliminates the space in the
database where information for any deleted messages was located, and is no
longer needed.
You can change the time interval where it offers to do the compaction.
When it offers, let it do it.
 
typer said:
Hi Carol, the answers on this discussion page confuse me.. i have been
receiving the 'compact" msg as well.. i only have about 30 emails (sent
and
rec'd) in my acct.. some of the answers listed refer to 7,000 messages
before
this prompt shows up.. do the emails get erased or what???
grace
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Compacting the database does not remove messages. It removes the space in
the database taken up by messages that have already been deleted.
 
typer said:
It seems to me that Frank and Richard are answering posts without
answering
requests for assistance in PLAIN ENGLISH.. why the heck can't we just keep
our emails and not have to go thru 5 prompts in the systems in hopes of
locating compacted emails.. seems counter intuitive and not at all user
friendly.
grace
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Messages are not stored in the database (WindowsMail.MSMessageStore)
Compacting removes the space in this database taken up by information about
messages that have been deleted already. If that isn't clear enough you are
going to have to ask your question more clearly.
 
hawk said:
About 2 weeks ago the
"pop up", came up came up when I closed windows mail. I clicked ok to
copact. Since the I still get the "pop up" everytime I close windows mail.
WHY ?
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Have you answered "Yes"?
 
Carol in GA said:
I've had Vista installed for almost a month now and this evening I keep
getting a message when I close Windows Mail that says:

"Windows Mail can compact the message store. This can take a few minutes."
and asks "OK or Cancel"

What is this? This is the same message I get, but I don't what it is. Can you be more descripted? How does it help me?
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"(e-mail address removed)"

Windows Mail wants to pack part of its database to remove
the deleted messages. If you don't let it, it will just keep
asking. If you let it, it will wait until you have closed the
program a number of times, often 100 times, before it
asks the same question again.
 
how do I erase the "compact the message store message"? I clean up my own
mail.Thx, Bridgette
 
The "compact message store" cleans up after you are done cleaning up...
It removes the space taken up by deleted messages in the database.
Let it run.
 
Bridgette said:
how do I erase the "compact the message store message"? I clean up my own
mail.Thx, Bridgette
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What steps do you take to remove unneeded message records from
WindowsMail.MSMessageStore and reduce its size to speed up WinMail?
 
Gary VanderMolen said:
What does the windows say?
You mean the one about compacting the message store? That one
should not come up every time you read an email.
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Yes, that one, and it doesn't appear for ME every time I read an e-mail,
but it does appear every time I close WMail and it IS annoying then!
 
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