Outlook Express 6 does not appear to be deleting emails and attach

[Steve]

My Outlook Express 6,running on XP, is over 1.5 GB. I went and (believe) I
deleted all my large emails (based on attachment size) for the Inbox and
Sent folders, then deleted these from the Delete folder.

The size of the Outlook Express folder did not decrease. What did I do
wrong? Maybe the attachments were not deleted?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[David Webb]

Nothing will change until you compact the folders. Click on File > Folders >
Compact All Folders. Check file size after next system start.

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Differences Between Outlook and Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;257824