deleting messages ???
in [Outlook Express]
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From: Chip and Roxanne on 24 Mar 2010 15:04 All of a sudden I am unable to delete any thing from Outlook Express 6. No matter how I try to do it and what ever file I try to delete the message from it just does nothing at all. When I click on the message and hit delete it just ignores the command. -- Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne
From: Bruce Hagen on 24 Mar 2010 15:13 Deleted Items is probably corrupt. In the off chance that you are keeping messages you want to save in Deleted Items, (a garbage pail), move them to a local folder you create and then do the following. Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer or, copy and paste it into Start | Run. In WinXP, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | View. With OE closed, find the DBX file for Deleted Items and delete it. A new one will be created automatically when you open OE. General precautions for Outlook Express: (You /must/ have seen this before!!!). Do not archive mail in the Inbox or Sent Items. Create your own user defined folders and move the messages you wish to save to them. Empty Deleted Items folder daily. Although dbx files have a theoretical capacity of 2GB, I recommend about a 300MB max for less chance of corruption. Information about the maximum file size of the .dbx files that are used by Outlook Express: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=903095 After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while working *offline* and do it often. Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background and leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}. And backup often. Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB): http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "Chip and Roxanne" <bedellh(a)frontiernet.net> wrote in message news:uMbI8S4yKHA.1796(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > All of a sudden I am unable to delete any thing from Outlook Express 6. > No matter how I try to do it and what ever file I try to delete the > message from it just does nothing at all. When I click on the message > and hit delete it just ignores the command. > > -- > Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne >
From: Chip and Roxanne on 25 Mar 2010 16:50 Thanks for the help everything is back and working fine -- Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne
From: Bruce Hagen on 25 Mar 2010 16:57 You're welcome. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "Chip and Roxanne" <bedellh(a)frontiernet.net> wrote in message news:eUGVO0FzKHA.2004(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Thanks for the help everything is back and working fine > > -- > Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne >
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