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In Outlook Express 6 running under XP SP2, I have nearly 400 MB of messages in the "Sent folder." After cleaning up / deleting most of it (I'm down to a mere 165 messages), I still show the "Sent folder" to be nearly 400 MB. How can this be? Is there sometning special maintenance I should be doing?
Name: WRCS Date: March 9, 2009 at 08:42:05 Pacific
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Are you meaning the "dbx" file called Sent Items? If so, I believe the only way to reduce its size is to delete it.. Create a new folder in Outlook Express (call it something like Temp Sent and move all messages from Sent Items to Temp Sent. Close Outlook Express. Delete Sent Items.dbx. Re-open Outlook Express. Transfer the messages back into Sent Items. delete Temp Sent. The recreated dbx file should now be much smaller. (Same applies to Inbox, Deleted Items, etc.)
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