Your current Identity may be damaged, especially if its the default Main
Identity. Try one or more of your accounts in a new Named Identity...

File | Identities | Add new identity

Assuming all is well (i.e., the behavior does not persist in the new
identity), (1) compact all folders in the old identity, (2) import messages
from the old identity into the new one, and then (3) delete the old one
(File | Identities | Manage Identities).

To avoid such corruption in futu

- 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.

- Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause
corruption (i.e., loss of messages) and provides no additional protection:

Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


WK wrote:
I'm running XP SP3, IE7, OE6, all up-to-date. Several days ago OE6 worked
perfectly.

Recently, I have installed and unistalled some programs. One of them must
have affected my OE6 and/or the registry. [I have a multiple anti-malware
protection, so I rule out any infection, also because I do scans daily.]

When trying to open any attachment in sent or received e-mails, nothing
happens. When trying to save attachments, I get this message:
"There was an error saving one or more of the attachments" [The other part
of the message is not copied since it is irrelevant with my huge free
disk(s) space and 3 GB memory.]

I have googled for the above phrase in quotes, found several pieces of
advice for folks who reported the same problem, followed some of them,
including the advice at
http://forums.techguy.org/web-email/...k-express.html.

While the other files suggested on the above forum for re-registration did
register successfully, the following 3 files have failed to register for
various reasons:

regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 msjava.dll ("module could not be found")
regsvr32 mshtml.dll

Multiple instances of all of the above suggested files do exists on my PC.

I have not followed precisely what
http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=75634 advise (since I have
IE7). Instead, I downloaded ie6setupOe.exe, latest available, 497 KB, from
http://download.softpedia.ro/dl/0642...ie6setupOe.exe,
did NOT want to make any modifications to the registry, and then I tried
to
run ie6setupOe.exe with the "q" switch, but installation did not proceed.

I have not tried to run IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe (Version 6.2.29.0 (Oct
'07)) since I have all updates and installation (of the older files) might
not succeed.
Neiher have I followed the advice at
http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=75921: uninstall Windows
Defender and reinstalled it again.
I'm afraid that I have to give up at this stage and must seek advice of
others. I have only a dial-up connection, but will check frequently (I'm
10
hrs ahead of UTC).
Thank you in advance for a problem-solving piece of advice.
WK