When I try to send or save ANY email with attachments or receive a large (4+mb) attachment in Outlook I get a message saying: "The action could not be completed. The disk is full." My mailbox IS NOT FULL and I have about 5gb free space on my hard drive. I did run dangerously low on hd space this afternoon. Did an archive & deleted files. Ran Norton Speed Disk afterwords and fragmentation is light so I didn't defrag. Any ideas? I desperately need to send and receive a few larger files this evening.

what email do you use? Is it yahoo, netscape, juno... most email accounts will NOT let you send files that are over 2 or 3 megs. If you can try to compress the file before you send it. Use stuffit Drop Stuff or ZipIt to compress. You can get free downloads of these at www.download.com Hope it helps Sonny

I stated in my original post that I am using Outlook. I regularly send and received emails up to 7mb without any problem. (My mail server allows me a 20mb mailbox and have actually emailed files up to 12mb in the past no problem) Now I can't even send a 200k attachment.

Ok, what I am asking is who is your internet with. Outlook is just an application for sending and receiving email. Your mailbox size is ONLY for saving messages. It has nothing to do with what size you send or receive. Dont get angry it wont help your situation. NOW! I can see from your email address that you have COX internet. Have you called their Tech Support. They may be having problems with their server thus will cause problems with you sending and receiving attachments.

Sorry I misread what you were asking. I understand the difference between and ISP and an email program. I don't have Cox. My ISP is bellsouth.net (which limits attachment size to 5mb per email) - but that is not the server I was trying to send files from. I am using the local server which hosts our website. They do not limit the size of my attachments. This is not a server or an isp problem though. It is something with Outlook or my HD. I have tried to send a 200k attachment thru each server and get the same message. (Actually the email is never even reaching the isp server - The message pops up before Outlook finished encoding the attachment - I can't even save an email to draft with an attachment.

Sounds like your Outlook database is corrupted, have you done a rebuild? (Launch Outlook while holding down the "Option" key. Should ask if you want to rebuild, if you say no, it will then ask if you want to do a complex rebuild, do the later ONLY if the first option will not work. (This is the case on Entourage, I am not sure if this option is available for Outlook) Let us know if that works and if Outlook has the rebuild option, I am interested.

THANKS!!!!! That was the solution. FYI the 1st dialogue box in Outlook asks if you want to "Compact" the database. If you say no it asks if you want to do a "Complex rebuild". Compacting worked for me!