Guv Bob wrote:

I moved a bunch of files to an external disk and got 2GB of free
memory. Also I copied some of the larger DBX files off the primary
HD and now can compact folders. The compacting process appears to
proceed to completion as normal, but when finished there is no more
free disk space, and the compacted DBX files are the same size as the
un-compacted files.

So how many files was "3/4 of the e-mails" in the Inbox folder? What
was their total size in kilobytes? You might've deleted some files but
not many files, or you deleted many files but they were all just a
couple kilobytes in size so in total there wasn't many bytes deleted to
then physically purge with a compaction.

Are you sure that the .dbx files you are looking at are in the path used
by Outlook Express? Where are you finding the .dbx files? If you
receive a new e-mail, do you see the timestamp on the inbox.dbx file
also get updated?

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