Surely 4 MB is not a dangerously large OE folder?

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
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The compacting will not do anything to stored messages, but with a file of
that size, it's most likely the file is corrupted. First make a copy of
it
somewhere other than in the message store folder and download either
DBXpress (recommended) or DBXtract (much, much slower on a file of that
size) from www.oehelp.com

The compacting only recovers wasted space that the previously deleted
messages occupied. Do not use the computer for other tasks while
compacting
or shut down Outlook Express or you risk losing all stored messages.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"Spot" wrote in message
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Frank, I want to do the other way around, to retrieve that email, not
clearing the sent items. Is it possible?


"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:

"Spot" wrote in message

My sent items.dbx size is 4.1MB, but when I open outlook express, it
is empty. But if I open with notepad, I can see text from my previous
sent items. Can anyone help me about this. How can I restore my sent
items?

First click File | Work Offline.
Then click File | Folder | Compact All.

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"jt3" wrote in message
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Surely 4 MB is not a dangerously large OE folder?


No 4 MB is not unusually large. I misread and thought the poster indicated
400 MB.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
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Thanks. I have some up around 20 and was hoping they weren't unsafe. ;-)

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
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"jt3" wrote in message
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Surely 4 MB is not a dangerously large OE folder?


No 4 MB is not unusually large. I misread and thought the poster
indicated
400 MB.
--
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.

Well, if he's got a 4 meg dbx file with no messages in it according to OE,
its either uncompacted or its corrupted. If its corrupted, the compaction
may shrink it down (and erase all the messages in doing so).

steve

"jt3" wrote in message
...
Surely 4 MB is not a dangerously large OE folder?

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
The compacting will not do anything to stored messages, but with a file
of
that size, it's most likely the file is corrupted. First make a copy of
it
somewhere other than in the message store folder and download either
DBXpress (recommended) or DBXtract (much, much slower on a file of that
size) from www.oehelp.com

The compacting only recovers wasted space that the previously deleted
messages occupied. Do not use the computer for other tasks while
compacting
or shut down Outlook Express or you risk losing all stored messages.
--
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.


"Spot" wrote in message
...

Frank, I want to do the other way around, to retrieve that email, not
clearing the sent items. Is it possible?


"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:

"Spot" wrote in message

My sent items.dbx size is 4.1MB, but when I open outlook express, it
is empty. But if I open with notepad, I can see text from my
previous
sent items. Can anyone help me about this. How can I restore my sent
items?

First click File | Work Offline.
Then click File | Folder | Compact All.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/sec...t/default.aspx
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/