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Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2002 23:47:26 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: "Compaction Failed" message

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In <3C755A4E.85304F47@pacbell.net>, on 02/21/02
at 01:34 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>The error seems to come up somewhere between compaction processing of the
>SENT and TRASH folders.

Then I would suspect the trash folder first. Is yours empty?

>> Check the file dates and sizes before and after.

>I did, and all the .SNMs (indexes) have been updated each time, but not
>necessarily all the respective message files. In some cases, that is

That makes sense. The error is reported and the process continues. It's
a shame they didn't bother to identify the folder with the problem.

>I gather you're implying that it's not the size of particular mail
>folders ? If I ever get the chance to do a major cleanup & paring down

I don't think size matters in this case.

>of the accumulated mail, maybe I'll find out . . . . OTOH, is it
>possible this is one of those bogus error messages -- i.e., the
>compaction procedure actually is working, despite the message ?

Not if it occurs everytime. It just means it's non fatal.

Steven

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