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General precautions for Outlook Express:

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupt. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your
mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

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.

Backup & Resto
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"ryu1" wrote in message
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Hi,

Recently when I search my OE folder for email in the "From field", it
didn't
return all the emails from a particular sender but just part of it (Ex. 10
out of 25). Is there a known problem or is there something wrong with that
particular .dbx file? Can anyone suggest a way for me to troubleshoot it?
Another question is what is the maximum size for a particular folder? I
had 2
coworkers that lost all the emails in the Inbox folder, and when look at
the
OE folders in windows explorer, OE created a new inbox.dbx folder and the
old
one has 2GB in size? Both had this problem and their inbox.dbx was 2GB in
size. Is 2GB the max size allowable for any OE dbx file?

Thanks,
Alan