Sandy, I have every post from this group that has ever come into my Inbox (it doesn't include anything I missed during my 3 years offline, though). I also still have every post from every other group I've ever run or moderated. Add to that, a ton of tech-oriented newsletters, personal messages from friends and relatives, etc. and my OE is currently keeping track of over 7GB worth of DBX files. I have no clue as to how many messages that is, but it's a LOT more than 4,000 or even 40,000. OE can handle it as long as the hardware can. I have a rather simplistic approach to OE maintenance & backup and I have never deviated from it. As a result (or perhaps in spite of them), I have never had most of the issues that we see come through the group from time to time. :O) Peace, Gman "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 3:03 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Paint Shop Pro 5.0 > lolol................i keep OE cleaned out as much as possible. got into > that habit from my old Me machine because OE wouldn't work for me if i > didn't. I was always amazed at people that said that in "such and such" a > folder they still had 4,000 emails to go thru, because my OE never allowed > me to have anywhere near that many emails in one single folder. I don't > even think i would have been able to download that many period, lol. not > sure now as i hope i never have that many to download at a > time.......yikes! > Sandy --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe 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/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join the PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------