What operating system are you using? What version of Outlook Express as
shown in the Help/About screen. Are you also running some type of antivirus
program and have it set to scan incoming/outgoing mail? Have you attempted
to alter the source code of your HTML messages to indicate the file path to
the desired images? How large is your message store folder?

Try compacting while working offline (click File/Work Offline and then
follow up with File/Folders/Compact All Folders and let it run to completion
without using the computer for any other task. It sounds like some
corruption has already taken place in your messaqe store folder.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"Johnno" wrote in message
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Please help. Attempting to insert image in outgoing email. When I click
'insert' 'picture' then 'browse' to select image, it appears in a set
folder
and wont allow me to browse additional folders. No options work (except
for
selecting an image in that folder). If I select one of them, the image
appears in the email but the box wont close. Only way out is to
control/alt/delete and cancel. Have rebooted, deleted cookies, files
(offline as well). Was unable to compact all files - error message saying
'file in use'. All closed and offline and unable to detect what would be
in
use. Any suggestions for a very aggrivating problem?