You can also right click on the folder name in the folder list and go to
Properties | Local File and click the remove headers or messages button to
clear things out. After that click on the compact button to shrink the
folder back down.

When you first go to a NG, you can have it set to download 50 headers at a
time, then go to Edit | Catch up and that will set OE to thinking its
downloaded all headers for that NG. Then uncheck the option to get xxx
headers at a time and then you will only get all the messages posted since
you did the Catch up.

steve

"Tom Brown" <Burner2NOSPAM@NOSPAMatt.net> wrote in message
news:Ooayldu6FHA.4012@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Steve,
>
> Ok, I just did that, but it makes me wonder how big my message database
> will get. Now, if I go for a few days without checking a particular
> newsgroup, it downloads a very large number of messages instead of the
> 300. I currenty subscribe to 14 newsgroups (OE, Word, Access, IE, XP,
> etc.) but usually don't regularly check them ... only when I have a need
> to solve a particular problem. Is this going to quickly fill up my hard
> disk since I have no limits on how many messages to download?
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> "Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote in message
> news:OIpbGwf6FHA.3276@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Also uncheck the option to download xxx headers at a time as it is
>> unreliable as to getting the newest messages.
>>
>> steve
>>
>> "Tom Brown" <Burner2NOSPAM@NOSPAMatt.net> wrote in message
>> news:uFA1NfY6FHA.3648@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have the option selected to "Mark all messages as Read when exiting a
>>> newsgroup." I also have "Get 300 headers at a time" selected.
>>>
>>> But, occasionally, I find that many of the newsgroups do not mark all
>>> messages at read when I leave them. These are Newsgroups that have
>>> previously been "caught up" and marked all messages as read upon exit.
>>> Today, I have 5 newsgroups that are showing messages as unread even
>>> though I have left that Newsgroup and exited OE and come back in.
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>