You are so full of good information that I now have a folder called "Lance a Lot". :) Ruth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:10 PM Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] Compacting Messages and Archiving (was RE: MASS DELETION OF EMAILS) > Compacting is a simple procedure in Outlook Express. Just select the > folder > in the side menu you need to compact e.g. INBOX , then click > FILE|FOLDERS|COMPACT. Depending on the amount in the folder it usually is > a > quick operation. This operation doesn't delete messages. It just removes > the > "waste" space in the folder. > > While we have talked about "mass deletion" of items in the SENT folder, > users need to be mindful that some of those messages may be of importance, > critical importance perhaps, so be judicial in what you are selecting to > delete. Don't just blindly highlight and delete. You may be looking for > one > of those messages some time in the future :-(. > > One way around storing messages is to use a web mail account. Most of the > major ones have lifted their storage capacity for messages - Hotmail now > 250 > MB, Yahoo Mail 250 MB but soon to be 1 GB, and GMail was 1 GB, now 2 GB+. > This is more than ample space than the average user would need (2 GB will > hold around 140,000 plain text messages or more). > > Even if you don't wish to use those services as your main mail account, > you > can set up one as an accessible archive for messages received on your > other > account/s. Just select messages you wish to archive, right click and > select > FORWARD. Those messages will the be added as attachments to a message you > can send to your GMail account (just watch the size). Add a subject to > indicate what the group of messages is about. When the message is opened > in > GMail, you will see all the attached messages displayed without the need > to > "open" attachments. Using this method, I reduced the size of my Outlook > "pst" file to a third of what it was previously. > > Archived messages in GMail are able to be searched rapidly for any message > you wish to review (similar to a Google search). The other advantage of > this > is that the messages can be accessed by you from any computer anywhere. > > > Lance > > > P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy > program can be downloaded FREE at > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii > -----Original Message----- > From: Cotahe@wmconnect.com [mailto:Cotahe@wmconnect.com] > Sent: Friday, 15 April 2005 10:49 PM > To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] RE: MASS DELETION OF EMAILS > > Maybe Lance will now address the importance of "compacting folders" after > deletions? > > Cora > > > ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== > To find and join surname and location genealogy lists at RootsWeb go here: > http://lists.rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >