compact maintenance missing

Hi - What happened to the Compact button in Maintenance? It sure helped recover a lot of empty space.
Joe

Compacting is done when WinMail is opened/closed 100 times. There is no need to do it more often as the database structure is quite different from Outlook Express and the DBX files. In Windows Mail, messages are stored as *.eml and *.nws files and the only database is the index files to them which uses ESENT (Extensible Storage Engine Architecture). You can read more about ESENT here:
Extensible Storage Engine Architecture: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/E2k3TechRef/764d8347-a99b-408a-a774-f1263797c3b0.mspx -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6 Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
"Joe727" wrote in message

Hi - What happened to the Compact button in Maintenance? It sure helped recover a lot of empty space.
Joe

Ok - thanks for the info Jim.
Joe
"Jim Pickering" wrote in message

Compacting is done when WinMail is opened/closed 100 times. There is no need to do it more often as the database structure is quite different from Outlook Express and the DBX files. In Windows Mail, messages are stored as *.eml and *.nws files and the only database is the index files to them which uses ESENT (Extensible Storage Engine Architecture). You can read more about ESENT here:
Extensible Storage Engine Architecture: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/E2k3TechRef/764d8347-a99b-408a-a774-f1263797c3b0.mspx -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6 Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
"Joe727" wrote in message Hi - What happened to the Compact button in Maintenance? It sure helped recover a lot of empty space.
Joe