The MVPs are very limited in what they can say due to non-disclosure
agreements.
I thought there was something publically available here,
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ , but I can't seem to find it at the moment.
I'll try to find more links relevant to this discussion as they become
available.
steve
"Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote in message
news:uQ$cTUcaFHA.3280@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> It won't come with IE7? How do you know? Will Longhorn have a new email
> program?
>
> Alias
>
> "Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote
>
>> There is no OE7 and its unlikely there even will be one.
>>
>> steve
>>
>> "Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote in message
>> news:%23dcBKQSaFHA.3488@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>> "mrd" <mrd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:FF91F9A0-6A01-4DD0-B73C-ACB21DD63A00@microsoft.com...
>>>> In searching the messages here I have found an answer. Apparently when
>>>> you
>>>> use the most popular email program (OE) and the most popular internet
>>>> security software (Norton) and you use a so-called "feature" of the
>>>> email
>>>> program you get screwed. OE6 was incessantly demanding that I compact
>>>> folders and I finally did so. This created several large .dbx files
>>>> apparently with nothing in them. (I tried restoring with OE6 from the
>>>> main
>>>> location - could not import, "files in use". So I tried copying the
>>>> files to
>>>> another folder and restoring - the import ran, but no files). I was
>>>> able to
>>>> restore some older files using DBXpress, but I must have over-written
>>>> the
>>>> recent ones when I was trying other recommended "fixes". Therefore I
>>>> lost
>>>> all of my emails from the last few months.
>>>>
>>>> What really ticks me off is this compacting "feature" is completely
>>>> worthless for anyone with a relatively new computer. The hard drives
>>>> are so
>>>> large (tens of GB) that the couple of MB saved by compacting is
>>>> completely
>>>> meaningless. OE6 should be fixed to stop the automatic compacting (by
>>>> automatic I am referring to the continually repeated request to
>>>> compact -
>>>> this is like kids on a trip asking "are we there yet" every 5 minutes).
>>>> If
>>>> someone wants to do it, they can do it manually, but the program should
>>>> NOT
>>>> demand to do it every time it is used.
>>>>
>>>> I post this as a warnig to all - DO NOT COMPACT YOUR FILES IN OUTLOOK
>>>> EXPRESS 6 IF YOU EVER WANT TO SEE THEM AGAIN.
>>>>
>>>> Live and learn. I am shifting my primary email to gmail.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the responses.
>>>> Mark
>>>
>>> I knew this would get people pissed off. I back up ten times a day now
>>> :-) I hope OE 7 lets *us* decide when to compact. The program will only
>>> demand it every 100 closings unless, of course, you cancel it. If you do
>>> that, it will keep coming up until you give in or, worse yet, choose,
>>> "don't show this message again".
>>>
>>> BTW, I have had that come up about ten times now and, every time, I let
>>> it do its thing and haven't had any problem.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "PA Bear" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What was the name of this "kept" folder?
>>>>>
>>>>> Why it happens:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
>>>>>
>>>>> Recovering data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>> DBXtract
>>>>> http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
>>>>>
>>>>> DBXtend (additional functionality)
>>>>> http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtend/Default.aspx
>>>>>
>>>>> DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
>>>>> http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
>>>>>
>>>>> OEX (OE Enhancement Program)
>>>>> http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>> Avoid Such Corruption in Future:
>>>>>
>>>>> - 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 [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a
>>>>> manual
>>>>> compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
>>>>> http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
>>>>> such
>>>>> corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
>>>>> --
>>>>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>>>>> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security
>>>>>
>>>>> mrd wrote:
>>>>> > Can SOMEONE actually answer this question without blaming the
>>>>> > problem on
>>>>> > the user? I have EXACTLY the same problem - NOT on a network
>>>>> > computer,
>>>>> > it is on my home computer. I need some emails I saved in a "kept"
>>>>> > folder, but OE6 won't let me do anything with them after it "helped
>>>>> > me"
>>>>> > by compacting and saving a couple of MB on my 80 GB hard drive.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I want to know how to restore my emails. Using the message import
>>>>> > doesn't
>>>>> > work.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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