I was not able to open OE6 on my Windows 98 machine, I got an "illegal
operation" message that ponited to an invalid page fault in module Msoe.dll.
I googled and found help at an MS page that suggested renaming Folders.dbx
in the Outlook Express folder.

To make a long story short, this worked. OE is open and functioning again.
But my folder tree has been reduced to a single list of folders, instead of
a tree with some folders under others, and also there are these ten or so
folders called Search folders.

Is it possible to get back my former Folder tree automatically, or do I have
to re-create it manually? And can I safely delete all those Search folders?
(There are e-mails in some of them, but they don't seem to contain
anything.) Thanks.

Folders.dbx controls your folder hierarchy. Deleting it brought all your
subfolders out in the open. All you have to do is grab each folder that
should be a sub folder and drag it back to the folder it belongs under. A
simple fix.

For the Search Folders, they can be deleted in the folder tree as well as in
the message store. Search Folders (.dbx) are remnants of using Edit | Find.
You can safely delete them.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Larry" wrote in message
...
I was not able to open OE6 on my Windows 98 machine, I got an "illegal
operation" message that ponited to an invalid page fault in module
Msoe.dll.
I googled and found help at an MS page that suggested renaming Folders.dbx
in the Outlook Express folder.

To make a long story short, this worked. OE is open and functioning
again.
But my folder tree has been reduced to a single list of folders, instead
of
a tree with some folders under others, and also there are these ten or so
folders called Search folders.

Is it possible to get back my former Folder tree automatically, or do I
have
to re-create it manually? And can I safely delete all those Search
folders?
(There are e-mails in some of them, but they don't seem to contain
anything.) Thanks.

Thank you.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Folders.dbx controls your folder hierarchy. Deleting it brought all your
subfolders out in the open. All you have to do is grab each folder that
should be a sub folder and drag it back to the folder it belongs under. A
simple fix.

For the Search Folders, they can be deleted in the folder tree as well as
in
the message store. Search Folders (.dbx) are remnants of using Edit |
Find.
You can safely delete them.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Larry" wrote in message
...
I was not able to open OE6 on my Windows 98 machine, I got an "illegal
operation" message that ponited to an invalid page fault in module
Msoe.dll.
I googled and found help at an MS page that suggested renaming
Folders.dbx
in the Outlook Express folder.

To make a long story short, this worked. OE is open and functioning
again.
But my folder tree has been reduced to a single list of folders, instead
of
a tree with some folders under others, and also there are these ten or
so
folders called Search folders.

Is it possible to get back my former Folder tree automatically, or do I
have
to re-create it manually? And can I safely delete all those Search
folders?
(There are e-mails in some of them, but they don't seem to contain
anything.) Thanks.

You're welcome.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Larry" wrote in message
...
Thank you.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Folders.dbx controls your folder hierarchy. Deleting it brought all your
subfolders out in the open. All you have to do is grab each folder that
should be a sub folder and drag it back to the folder it belongs under. A
simple fix.

For the Search Folders, they can be deleted in the folder tree as well as
in
the message store. Search Folders (.dbx) are remnants of using Edit |
Find.
You can safely delete them.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Larry" wrote in message
...
I was not able to open OE6 on my Windows 98 machine, I got an "illegal
operation" message that ponited to an invalid page fault in module
Msoe.dll.
I googled and found help at an MS page that suggested renaming
Folders.dbx
in the Outlook Express folder.

To make a long story short, this worked. OE is open and functioning
again.
But my folder tree has been reduced to a single list of folders,
instead
of
a tree with some folders under others, and also there are these ten or
so
folders called Search folders.

Is it possible to get back my former Folder tree automatically, or do I
have
to re-create it manually? And can I safely delete all those Search
folders?
(There are e-mails in some of them, but they don't seem to contain
anything.) Thanks.