a friend of mine had this problem for a while. I have it off and on. She never did figure it out. I know that you can't have any mail open in your system tray when you compact - and I think she said it's best to have your local folder highlighted. but... you said your oe was closed... so that should certainly have worked for you! I'll ask her if she ever figured out what was going on. Cris ----- Original Message ----- From: donbriggs To: # PCTechTalk@Free Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 7:35 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Compacting OE Files Trying this one again, it seems the conversation changed but not the subject Line. LOL Hi, Every time I try to compact the mail folders in OE it returns an error message that the 'File Folders' is in use and halts the compacting. Where in the H*ll is the File Folder? OE was closed at the time and I had an automatic offer to compact the folders, Can anyone shed any light. Rocky de Dragon -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk