It's a necessary housekeeping chore. Like periodically taking out the
garbage at home. Eventually the garbage would take up so much
space that you can't live in the house anymore.
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
"Fortuitous" <Fortuitous@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:026F3B6D-3E8E-4D35-977D-BB7A1ED7DB67@xxxxxx
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>I do not understand. Why should the compaction be done?
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> "Gary VanderMolen" wrote:
> Quote:
>> That's like turning off the seatbelt warning buzzer on your car...
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>> There is a good reason why compaction should be done periodically.
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>> Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]
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>> "Mr. Ray" <cloutier.mail@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:5ADDEB56-20BD-4B47-9C7A-EB780E692D0F@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > You can stop the pop up from coming up everytime by going to the mail "tool"
>> > then click "options" then click "advanced" then click "maintenance" then
>> > unclick the box that says " Compact the database on shutdown every 100 runs.
>> > The popup messages should cease.
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>> > RC
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