Colin, Can't be. This is the first compact in about a month. I've deleted at least 300 messages and archived more than that out of the file. ...........Peter > Just means there's nothing to compact. > > If you're not convinced, to prove its working okay, simply > copy and paste a few emails in from any folder and then put > them into your deleted folder. Do this several times till > you've got a few hundred messages in there. Then check the > file size, then delete the messages and do a compact. You > will hear it running for a while, and your file size will decrease. > > Colin > ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************