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Old June 7th 07, 07:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general,microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
...winston
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Default Problem with Inbox File

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Let us know if successful.
...winston

"Neil" wrote in message . net...
: 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
::
::
:
:
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