It does not do that because you are missing quite a few Updates to your OE

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Peter

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"Jess Fertudei" wrote in message
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And there I was looking all through the application data for him... oops


I wonder why my own machine doesn't do that... .. .. .. ..








"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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When you compact, a copy of your files is sent to the Recycle Bin as a back up.
"just in case". Assuming all messages in OE are as you wish, check and empty the
Recycle Bin.
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Bruce Hagen
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"Jess Fertudei" wrote in message
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A family member's XP sp2 box was getting low on space on it's C drive. It was
down to 1.64 G free and I noticed that he had 1.2 G of train shots in a rail
group. I did a delete bodies and then compacted. The thing took forever as it
copied files to somewhere that I did not take note of as I thought it would be a
backup that would delete afterward.

After a shut down and reboot I expected to see 1.2 + 1.64 for about 2.8Gigs
free, give or take... instead, he now has 1.42G free.

SIGH

A search for .bak on the drive found nothing and no files look particularly
large that I see... so I must not be looking very well.

Where do I look for whatever I need to nuke?