How to compress the folders of outlook express

My Inbox Outlook express is almost complete (~ 2 GB) and continues to receive new e-mails. I tried to use the function of compression under file. It started OK, copy of the file and compression, then an error msg pops up saying that the file is used by Outlook Express. So, I was not able to reduce the size of the Inbox by removing some of the attachments. In fact, I was not able to reduce the size of any existing folders.by deletion of their content.

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1/how to access the file from archive to outlook express,.

2. I'll be able to compress the archive after the deletion of junk files?

You jumped the gun to fire a little more. What I wanted to do you are to create new folders and move all messages from the Inbox to them and then create a new Inbox. Follow these instructions to recover the old Inbox in OE, so you can move messages to other folders, keep to about 300 MB.

How to restore individual dbx files
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1

Once this is done, you can simply delete the old and empty Inbox and then compact. The new folders that you create will be much smaller and without alteration, then they should compact now.

It's the only way to access the folder "archived" except to buy a tool to extract the old messages in the Inbox and place them into folders.

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