"pwrichcreek" <pwrichcreek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> It seems to me that if you could reset the howManyTimesHasOEBeenClosed
> counter to zero, each time you started OE, automatic compaction would
> never
> occur. Then, when you observed whatever bad thing(s) starts to creep in
> due
> to not compacting, you could manually compact in a controlled environment,
> such as a modified SAFE mode.

Question answered in this paragraph. By the time you "Observe" bad things
creeping in the damage is done and it's too late.