Thanks!

"...winston" wrote in message
...
Neil,
Here's a direct link to software($7) that may provide a solution to recover
messages from the corrupted Inbox.dbx folder and recovery.
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

Additional reading info on corrupt dbx files and DBXtract
http://www.updatexp.com/tip23.html

There may be other 3rd party versions(fee or free) that also perform the
same task on the net, but the above has a long history of success.

...winston


"Neil" wrote in message
et...
:I recently opened Outlook Express 6 on my XP machine, and OE just
: continually showed the hourglass. I couldn't use any of the functions or
do
: anything except crash out of it with Ctrl+Alt+Del.
:
: I went into the OE store directory and moved Inbox.dbx to another location
: and reopened OE. OE opened fine, no hourglass, and everything was fine.
It,
: of course, showed an empty Inbox, which it created to replace the missing
: one. I then put Inbox.dbx back into the store directory (overwriting the
one
: that OE had just created), and OE hung again.
:
: So it seems that either my Inbox file is corrupted, or there's a file in
: there that's causing this problem. What can I do? Is there a way to fix
this
: file so that I can get at the messages that are in it?
:
: Thanks for any assistance!
:
: Neil
:
: