> Ed Gould wrote: > >> Just a thought here. When I ran OE the DB was around 25G and it took >> a good 15 minutes to back it up and that meant OE could not be >> updating the DB while the back up was running. At least with >> individual messages this shouldn't(?) be an issue. Outlook Express for Mac had a limit of, IIRC, 2GB for its database. Perhaps you mean that your database was 25MB rather than 25GB? ~Linda