max limits for OE emails and IE fav's ?

Looking ahead, hoping to avoid potential problems, I am wondering if there exists maximum limits for the number of "items" for the following components.

Outlook Express -- emails retained.

Internet Explorer -- favorites.

Windows Picture and Fax Viewer -- number of pictures...

Seems like there was something else, but it escapes me at the moment. Anyone know?

 

As far as I know (?) you are only limited to the amount of storage available on your hard drive.

 

Thanks John.

There was something else: the number of pictures in "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer "...?

 

keywester--Just to add to what JohnB said, for emails the only limit would be if you kept the emails on your email service's server. See OE Tools|Accounts|highlight your account|Properties|Advanced tab. Make sure "Leave a copy on Server" is unchecked or that you have a rather few days required for the server to keep the messages.

 

hmmm; last I recall, a backup of my favorites produced a count in excess of 3,000 (that is not a typo, >3K...), but they are distributed amongst over 50 folders, and I am sure that I have not exceeded the "270" for one folder...

 

I'm not positive, but I'm thinking I heard or read somewhere that there are limits on how much you can have on in OE, depending on what ISP or server you use. I do know that I can't send out more than 20 messages at a time with my cable server (spam control). You just have to check with them for storage allowances.

 

No Steve and Key

Have 326 in the root Favorites folder plus 50 other catagory folders.

That kills the 270 theory. I have never heard of a limit.

Mike

 

Just found this Link that says something about size limit for Favorites. Wonder if it's wrong since keywester has more than this site says in his.

Interesting.

 

Panda They are speaking of the length of a single link. Not the number of links.

Mike

 

OH WOW! I thought it sounded strange. It's even stranger to imagine a link with that many characters! It boggles the mind.

Thanks for clarifying.

 

Well, out of curiosity, I just "eyeballed" my fav's, and I was in the ballpark -- actually my recollected number was a little under, as I appear to have closer to 4,000 favorites. But again, they are scattered amongst well over 50 folders...and none of the folders appeared to have much more than about one hundred links...

I know what your thinkin: "Jeez, does this guy need to 'get a life' or what... "... Well, I do a lot of surfin, a lot of online research, and I get tired of sorting through the output of a search engine whenever I want to find a site, so I do keep a lot of links in fav's...

Anyway, there hopefully and likely is not a limit on fav's, so I'll just keep backin em up, and if I ever do hit the wall on the max, I'll let you all know... My biggest concern is any possible max on OE, as I do not back that up, altho I know there are util's to do so...