While I was attempting to 'catch up' a newsgroup System appeared to hang.
After aborting OE 6 will no longer start. I have tried System Restore but
no help. I am now searching for a fix. Could someone please advise on a good
method to restore OE to a working condition or a link to a fix? Is there a
way to copy a DLL from another System? Is there a way to reinstall OE?

TIA

JB

From:
http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/directdb.htm

Errors in DIRECTDB.DLL or MSOE.DLL generally indicate corruption in the
message store. Start by moving Folders.dbx to an empty Windows folder. You
will lose your folder hierarchy and the lists of newsgroups on the news
servers, but it might get you into OE. Note: The DBX file are hidden files
in Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3.

If that doesn't do it then move all of the DBX files to the same folder as
Folders.dbx. You should now get into OE. Try importing the messages from the
folder you moved the DBX files to. If you can't, you can use one of these
tools to extract the messages:

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXpress: {much faster for large files}
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

Note: It can take a long time (days with really large folders).

The messages can then be dragged from the Windows folder back into a folder
in an open instance of OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Jimmy Buffer" wrote in message
...
While I was attempting to 'catch up' a newsgroup System appeared to hang.
After aborting OE 6 will no longer start. I have tried System Restore but
no help. I am now searching for a fix. Could someone please advise on a
good method to restore OE to a working condition or a link to a fix? Is
there a way to copy a DLL from another System? Is there a way to reinstall
OE?

TIA

JB

Bruce Hagen wrote:
From:
http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/directdb.htm

Errors in DIRECTDB.DLL or MSOE.DLL generally indicate corruption in
the message store. Start by moving Folders.dbx to an empty Windows
folder. You will lose your folder hierarchy and the lists of
newsgroups on the news servers, but it might get you into OE. Note: The
DBX file are hidden files in Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3.

If that doesn't do it then move all of the DBX files to the same
folder as Folders.dbx. You should now get into OE. Try importing the
messages from the folder you moved the DBX files to. If you can't,
you can use one of these tools to extract the messages:

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXpress: {much faster for large files}
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

Note: It can take a long time (days with really large folders).

The messages can then be dragged from the Windows folder back into a
folder in an open instance of OE.

"Jimmy Buffer" wrote in message
...
While I was attempting to 'catch up' a newsgroup System appeared to
hang. After aborting OE 6 will no longer start. I have tried System
Restore but no help. I am now searching for a fix. Could someone
please advise on a good method to restore OE to a working condition
or a link to a fix? Is there a way to copy a DLL from another
System? Is there a way to reinstall OE?

TIA

JB

Thank you for the quick response. I had been reading for quite sometime
with all types of fixes including ones I was asked to subscribe to an some I
had to pay for. I just did one thing you recommended and all is well. I
moved Folder.dbx to temp folder and OE started no problem. Very happy guy
and thank you very much. I do now have many groups including many I had
removed but that is of little consequence.

Regards

JB

Thank you for the quick response. I had been reading for quite sometime
with all types of fixes including ones I was asked to subscribe to an some
I had to pay for. I just did one thing you recommended and all is well. I
moved Folder.dbx to temp folder and OE started no problem. Very happy guy
and thank you very much. I do now have many groups including many I had
removed but that is of little consequence.

Regards

JB


You're welcome & glad you got OE going.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

Get ready to answer this in Vista.

steve

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Thank you for the quick response. I had been reading for quite sometime
with all types of fixes including ones I was asked to subscribe to an
some I had to pay for. I just did one thing you recommended and all is
well. I moved Folder.dbx to temp folder and OE started no problem. Very
happy guy and thank you very much. I do now have many groups including
many I had removed but that is of little consequence.

Regards

JB


You're welcome & glad you got OE going.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

I have no current plans of even going there. VBEG

Bruce


"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
news
Get ready to answer this in Vista.

steve

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Thank you for the quick response. I had been reading for quite sometime
with all types of fixes including ones I was asked to subscribe to an
some I had to pay for. I just did one thing you recommended and all is
well. I moved Folder.dbx to temp folder and OE started no problem. Very
happy guy and thank you very much. I do now have many groups including
many I had removed but that is of little consequence.

Regards

JB


You're welcome & glad you got OE going.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~