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**KenV**

Very helpful! Thanks!

ken

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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I'm still not sure what got corrupted originally, or how it got
corrupted.

See this discussion:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

General OE Caveats:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working
offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

- Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt
to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic
Compacting is taking place.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~PA Bear

KenV wrote:
Here is what happened, in sequence, as I recall it:

First, I couldn't save new messages as drafts.

Then I saw that the Drafts folder was missing in OE--when or how it
disappeared, I don't know. So I decided to add a new folder, Drafts,
manually. That was the wrong thing to do, but I didn't know that, and
there
was then a new, empty folder, Drafts, in alphabetical order with the rest
of
the folders beneath the default folders.

I then shut down OE, then went to Windows explorer, and deleted the
drafts.dbx file

I then reopened OE, and there was the same Drafts folder I had manually
added, but I still couldn't save into it. I shut down OE again and
deleted
the drafts.dbx.

I then restored, from an image backup on an external drive, the entire OE
Identities sub folder I had backed up a few days ago, and put that
subfolder
onto my Desktop.

I copied all the newer files--everything--from the current corrupted
Identities subfolder into the Identities subfolder on the desktop,
overwriting the week-old dbx files, to bring it up to date.

Then I deleted the OE Identities subfolder I had been using, moved the
restored folder with the current dbx files, etc., from my Desktop back to
the location where OE expected to find it. It had the same long name with
all the numbers, etc., as the one I had just deleted. It also had the
old,
backed-up drafts.dbx, since there was no newer drafts.dbx to overwrite
it.

When I then opened OE, everything was completely back to normal--OE had
re-created a default Drafts folder, which it wouldn't do before, and all
my
other folders were current with the messages I had sent and received
since
my week-old backup. And I could now save to the drafts folder.

That was probably a very long way around the problem, but seemed easier
than
creating a new identity and importing everything including the address
book,
accounts, re-writing the message rules, etc.

I'm still not sure what got corrupted originally, or how it got
corrupted.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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KenV wrote:
I don't know what it was, or why it happened, but it's fixed.

I deleted the Drafts folder, shut down OE, rebooted it, and it created
a
new
drafts folder and drafts.dbx...

Then OE was NOT closed the other times you deleted DRAFTS.DBX.

If you could literally delete the Drafts folder, either it wasn't the
default Drafts folder or your identity's damaged.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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