I am trying to back up my work pc to a CD. I want to save the contents of my outlook express inbox. In the past I have simply copied the Inbox.dbx onto the disk. If I then reinstall Windows I have then overwritten the new Inbox.dbx with the one off the disk. When I then open my inbox all the messages I have carried over are there.
To try and get the size of the Inbox.dbx down I went through it and deleted all the unwanted messages, The problem is I cannot get the size of the inbox.dbx down to what i want. I deleted all the messages in the deleted items folder within outlook, but when i go to look at the deleted items.dbx within identities it is still over 300 meg, even though the same file when opened in OE is empty. If it makes any difference I am using OE 5 and W2kpro.

Is there something I should be doing to the OE settings. This is what I have at the moment:



Any suggestions?

cheers,

Mike.

 

You need to compact the folders - space freed by deleting stuff isn't actually removed until you do this. Can't remember how to do it in OE (I use outlook) but the help should tell you.

 

file/folder/compact all folders.

problem solved.

thanks,

mike.