I have tried everything .My computer freezes up evertime I try to send it.It
is a large file of jpegs. I now have it set to recieve only but I cannot send
without this email locking me up.I can't delete it because as soon as I click
on it, everything freezes up.Help would be greatly appreciated. In laymans
terms even better! LOL

Open the Outbox and see if it will delete after checking: File | Work
Offline & View | Layout: Uncheck the Preview Pane.

If not:

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the
location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise, write
the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

In Windows XP, 2K & 2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable Show
Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options |
View.

With OE closed, find the DBX file for the Outbox.dbx and delete it. A new,
empty one will be created automatically when you open OE.

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until
the compacting is completed.

In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background and
leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Darcy D" Darcy wrote in message
news
I have tried everything .My computer freezes up evertime I try to send
it.It
is a large file of jpegs. I now have it set to recieve only but I cannot
send
without this email locking me up.I can't delete it because as soon as I
click
on it, everything freezes up.Help would be greatly appreciated. In laymans
terms even better! LOL

You Windows user profile contains the storage files for all the folders
Outlook Express uses. Each folder has a file name with a dbx extension.
e.g. Outbox.dbx.
To find your store file location
Tools/Options/Maintenance/StoreFolder
Close OE
Using Windows Explorer(ensure that hidden and system files are
viewable-Tools/FoldersOptions/View) navigate to your store profile and
rename the Outbox.dbx file to Outbox.old.
Restart OE, a new Outbox will be created.

--
...winston
MS-MVP Windows Live Mail

"Darcy D" Darcy wrote in message
news
I have tried everything .My computer freezes up evertime I try to send
it.It
is a large file of jpegs. I now have it set to recieve only but I
cannot send
without this email locking me up.I can't delete it because as soon as
I click
on it, everything freezes up.Help would be greatly appreciated. In
laymans
terms even better! LOL

o not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

How do you check the spaced used by the "user created folders (is) under
100MB"?

thanks for all of your posts.
c


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Open the Outbox and see if it will delete after checking: File | Work
Offline & View | Layout: Uncheck the Preview Pane.

If not:

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the
location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise, write
the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

In Windows XP, 2K & 2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable Show
Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options |
View.

With OE closed, find the DBX file for the Outbox.dbx and delete it. A new,
empty one will be created automatically when you open OE.

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until
the compacting is completed.

In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background and
leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Darcy D" Darcy wrote in message
news
I have tried everything .My computer freezes up evertime I try to send
it.It
is a large file of jpegs. I now have it set to recieve only but I cannot
send
without this email locking me up.I can't delete it because as soon as I
click
on it, everything freezes up.Help would be greatly appreciated. In laymans
terms even better! LOL

Compact your folders and then the size can be determined by the size of the
dbx file for the folder in the message store.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Cone" wrote in message
...
o not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

How do you check the spaced used by the "user created folders (is) under
100MB"?

thanks for all of your posts.
c


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Open the Outbox and see if it will delete after checking: File | Work
Offline & View | Layout: Uncheck the Preview Pane.

If not:

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the
location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise,
write
the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

In Windows XP, 2K & 2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable Show
Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options |
View.

With OE closed, find the DBX file for the Outbox.dbx and delete it. A
new,
empty one will be created automatically when you open OE.

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user
created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything
until
the compacting is completed.

In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background
and
leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Darcy D" Darcy wrote in message
news
I have tried everything .My computer freezes up evertime I try to send
it.It
is a large file of jpegs. I now have it set to recieve only but I
cannot
send
without this email locking me up.I can't delete it because as soon as I
click
on it, everything freezes up.Help would be greatly appreciated. In
laymans
terms even better! LOL