Private Messages..what am I doing wrong?
 

Whenever somebody tries to send me a private message, they are told my message box is full. What I've been doing is responding to the messages I get, then deleting them. What I see on this end is merely that I have no new messages. So, anybody know what I need to do to clean out the message box? Thanks in advance for your help...computer illiterate here..

Just a guess, but the box may be limited to a specific size, counting sent messages. Try looking in your "sent messages" folder, and deleting them.

Tom

Tom? THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I just deleted a TON of sent messages...and I had no idea the folder was there. You're the man!

What I don't get ... is why, when you get a new message, or send one and the 'magic' limit is reached ... why don't you get a message box telling you that you are full? You are there at the message center, and it would be easy to take care of the old messages!

<b>NO, NO, NO ... it waits until someone tries to send the NEXT message, and they get the notification that your box is full ... AND YOU GET AN EMAIL telling you of the failed instant message attempt! Faulty logic, IMHO!!!</b>

That is nothing Warren, Microsoft does worse. Here is a good example: A Outlook 97 or 2000 personal folder (*.pst) file has a maximum size of 2 Gigabytes. Once it reaches that limit, It quits working (most of the time, occasionally it will get bigger with no problems [shrug]). The program will happily let you keep adding stuff to the file untill it surpasses this limit, without warning you that it is about to break itself. To make it more fun, it won't break untill you close and run the program again.

The fix for this problem is to run a special fix program from MS that truncates the file to its maximum size, essentially deleting enough of your mail messages to get to the allowed limit. so you can open it.

Tom

Warren...I think in this area, we old farts must agree...Tom, you ARE the man! Please don't leave us, I'm sure you'll be needed again. Hmmm, maybe already? I just tried to give this post a wavy smiley, and he didn't take when I clicked on him, like he used to...yet the disable smilies box is blank, not checked...isn't that the way it's supposed to be?