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Sent Items.dbx size
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? |
Sent Items.dbx size
"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/ |
Sent Items.dbx size
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/ |
Sent Items.dbx size
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/ |
Sent Items.dbx size
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/ |
Sent Items.dbx size
I can't afford to buy DBXpress. Thanks for your advice.
"Jim Pickering" wrote: 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/ |
Sent Items.dbx size
"jt3" wrote in message
... 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. |
Sent Items.dbx size
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/ |
Sent Items.dbx size
DBXtract should work on it, if its really got messages in it. Its only $5.
steve "Spot" wrote in message ... I can't afford to buy DBXpress. Thanks for your advice. "Jim Pickering" wrote: 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/ |
Sent Items.dbx size
Thanks. I have some up around 20 and was hoping they weren't unsafe. ;-)
"Jim Pickering" wrote in message ... "jt3" wrote in message ... 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. |
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