Because compacting without going offline is a major cause of losing
the integrity of a .dbx file.

I had forgotten about background computation -- even worse, just don't do it.
You will see in the following article about doing compaction offline.

InsideOE: Maintenance (Tom C. Koch)
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm

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"Chrissy" wrote in message ...
David McRitchie wrote

With OE up but offline you might want to compact your folders.
File, Folders, Compact all -- make sure you are offline

Why offline?

Chrissy.