Outlook Express keeps giving me this pop-up message:
"To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This may take up to a few minutes. OK / Cancel"
When I click on "Cancel," the same message just pops up again after a while with a ding sound. The same message pops up again after a while. The more I try to cancel it it continues to pop up again and again, faster and faster, until after a while the dinging sound repeats so rapidly it sounds like a continuous phone ringing. The only way I can stop this nightmare is by closing Outlook Express, but the process happens again every time I launch the program. The same pop-up also appears once when I boot up my computer even though OE has not yet been launched.
It all started a few weeks ago when the pop-up appeared and I clicked "OK" but interrupted the compacting procedure before it had finished compacting.
1. How can I stop this from occurring?
2. Should I ever again consider compacting messages after this horrible experience?
Outlook express WILL compact messages stores after every 100 closings, and WILL continue to prompt until you allow it to do so
Compact the files yourself or allow it to occur
/dbx corruption and loss of all messages WILL happen if you do not compact the database,
that is why a hotfix was issued that forces Outloook express to compact
File
Folder
Compact All Folders
Do not interupt the process
This means that one of the .dbx files that outlook express uses is corrupt, probably from interrupting it when it was doing maintainence.
It is only a little tedious to fix
create a new identity ([file][identities])
import all mail to the new identiy from the old
delete all mail from all folders of the original identity
compact all folders on the now empty folders of the old identity
import all the email from the new identity to the old identity
delete the new identity.
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I tried your solution and ran the
File
Folder
Compact All Folders
without interruption. Then I defragged and restarted my computer.
At first it seemed like it had worked, but the problem returned. So I compacted all folders a second time. As I type this the bell is now ringing like a continuous telephone. The popups are less frequent, but still there.
What do you suggest?
I just compacted all folders a third time and as soon as the process was completed, the bell started ringing like a continuous telephone. I had to close OE to stop it. Now what?
Did you ever find a solution for this? I have the exact same problem on my laptop that I just bought from a seller on Ebay. The incessant phone ringing sound, and the pop-up message offering to compact things, which I do not want to do. I get that message on my desktop computer also, and always hit Cancel, but I've never gotten this annoying ringing with it - only on the laptop. It's so bad, I have to either turn my speakers off, or turn off Outlook Express altogether - it simply won't go away! What to do?? Thanks everyone!
outlook cose after than compect message sow, how to solve this problem.
I have the same problem, but I have never used Outlook express (neither another outlook solution from Microsoft)...
Are there any solution ?
Greetings.
I was having the awful ringing problem, because I decided to take a chance on my new computer with XP and compact the folders upon the queque. I interupted it, unknowing that it would cause such a nightmare. I tried the below, but didn't follow the instructions well. I just compacted the next time I got the message, then created a new identity, then imported all my mail to the new, then deleted the old identity completely. The only problem is I lost all my email from the web server, but had them in Outlook, so I am okay. I think had I done it properly, I would not have lost it.
The problem seems completely fixed.
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Comment posted on Sep 23, 2008Thismeans that one of the .dbx files that outlook express uses is corrupt,probably from interrupting it when it was doing maintainence.
It is only a little tedious to fix
create a new identity ([file][identities])
import all mail to the new identiy from the old
delete all mail from all folders of the original identity
compact all folders on the now empty folders of the old identity
import all the email from the new identity to the old identity
delete the new identity. but only did the following due to not attending to the instructions well
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