[Crossposted to OE General newsgroup]
1a. Move any messages that you want to keep out of Sent Items and Deleted
Items folders and into other local OE folders you've created for archiving
(saving) such messages.
1b. Move 99% of your messages in your Inbox folder to other local OE
folders, too.
2. Manually compact all OE folders (ALT+F+F+F). Do not TOUCH the machine
until the compacting process has finished!
3. Close OE & reboot twice.
4. If no joy, tell me if MS Office and/or MS Outlook is also installed? If
so, what version (e.g., Outlook 2003 SP3)?
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General OE user caveats:
- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.
- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.
- Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently
perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm
- WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
automatically compacting your message store.
- Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause
corruption (i.e., loss of messages), it provides no additional protection,
and even Symantec says it's not necessary:
<QP>
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions.
</QP>
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2002111812533106
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
Post by WOLLAMOnce again I feel like a pinhead, and apologize for the poor post. I just
now realized I did not originally post in Outlook Express forum.
Windows XP Home v. 5.1 SP2
Outlook Express 6.0
Within the Address Book I have several 'Groups' of Contacts. I am trying to
add a contact to one of the Groups. I hope this helps, and thank you again.
Post by PA Bear [MS MVP]Windows version? IE version?
Are you referring to Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, Windows
Mail, or another Mail Client?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
Post by WOLLAMWhile trying to add a new contact to an existing Group I received the
Unable to complete this operation due to insufficient disk space. Pleas
free some disk space and click OK to try again.
Any help in solving/understanding this error message would be greatly
appreciated, thank you.