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From: Guv Bob on 21 May 2010 02:26
Hi Folks,

My in-box folder was getting too large, so I deleted about 3/4 of the emails but still the DBX folder shows the same size - 200MB. I tried to compress it and it says there is not enough hard drive space (I have 900 MB of empty space).

Any idea how to reduce the size of the inbox?

Thanks in advance!

Bob

From: VanguardLH on 21 May 2010 07:18
Guv Bob wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> My in-box folder was getting too large, so I deleted about 3/4 of the emails but still the DBX folder shows the same size - 200MB. I tried to compress it and it says there is not enough hard drive space (I have 900 MB of empty space).
>
> Any idea how to reduce the size of the inbox?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Bob

900MB of free disk space is too little for even the OS to run properly.
Time to start shopping around for a bigger disk or a 2nd one to add. In
the meantime, start looking at what you have installed that you can
uninstall, or what data files that aren't much used that you can move
off onto removable media, like a CD/DVD-R[W] disc or flash thumb drive.
From: Steve Cochran on 21 May 2010 08:29
Go to Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Disk cleanup and run that and see what kind of space you can free up on the hard drive. If you still get the inability to compact the file, then move all the messages to another folder. Then with OE closed, delete the inbox.dbx file. Then you will have a new and very small inbox.

steve

"Guv Bob" <brotherdave(a)YEEEEOOOOWWWbigfoot.com> wrote in message news:hqSdnciYb4H2umvWnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com...
Hi Folks,

My in-box folder was getting too large, so I deleted about 3/4 of the emails but still the DBX folder shows the same size - 200MB. I tried to compress it and it says there is not enough hard drive space (I have 900 MB of empty space).

Any idea how to reduce the size of the inbox?

Thanks in advance!

Bob

From: Guv Bob on 22 May 2010 03:24
Thanks!

"VanguardLH" <V(a)nguard.LH> wrote in message news:ht5q4i$8im$1(a)news.albasani.net...
> Guv Bob wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > My in-box folder was getting too large, so I deleted about 3/4 of the emails but still the DBX folder shows the same size - 200MB. I tried to compress it and it says there is not enough hard drive space (I have 900 MB of empty space).
> >
> > Any idea how to reduce the size of the inbox?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Bob
>
> 900MB of free disk space is too little for even the OS to run properly.
> Time to start shopping around for a bigger disk or a 2nd one to add. In
> the meantime, start looking at what you have installed that you can
> uninstall, or what data files that aren't much used that you can move
> off onto removable media, like a CD/DVD-R[W] disc or flash thumb drive.
From: Guv Bob on 22 May 2010 03:28
"Steve Cochran" <scochran(a)oehelp.com> wrote in message news:8230BA2E-CE66-462C-BA47-D64584C2BB40(a)microsoft.com...

Go to Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Disk cleanup and run that and see what kind of space you can free up on the hard drive. If you still get the inability to compact the file, then move all the messages to another folder. Then with OE closed, delete the inbox.dbx file. Then you will have a new and very small inbox.

Thanks, Steve. 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.

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