Hello all, Just recently I have been getting this message from Outlook Express every time I close out of the OE program. It reads as follows: To free up disk space, OE can compact messages. This may take up to a few minutes. []Don't show me this again OK CANCEL I have gone to TOOLS>OPTIONS>MAINTENANCE>CLEAN UP NOW and where it says local files for OUTLOOK EXPRESS then under that it shows total size of files 0 bytes wasted space 0 bytes (0%) This really is making no sense to me since these numbers show 0 or 0% Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks, Ron

Click on cancel and tick the dont show this message again. I dont know why it satretd to appear but it happened for the first time for myself also. It seems that message pops up if you have quiet a few received messages in your in box with large attachements. That was the case for me any way. The procedure above fixed the problem. I think a good look in the settings section of OUXprss and a search of Microsoft KNowledge base may give you some more clues. I havent had time to do that myself yet. Regards IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT

Janos, Thanks for the possible solution. I have emptied my INBOX, SENT ITEMS, DELETED ITEMS and still have the message appearing. Here is a link to a possible solution my father-in-law sent me. http://chat.dailymail.co.uk/dailymail/threadnonInd.jsp?forum=84&thread=9659473&message=10617822 I just am not brave enough yet to press the compact button. I downloaded the XP SERVICE PACK 2 here just about 3-4 weeks ago and about 2 days ago was the first I have seen this message appear when closing OE 6. I wonder if this is a glitch with XP SP2?? I do have other folders that I created and have quite a few e-mails saved in them. Maybe this is part of the problem as well? Thanks again for your input, Ron