I am unable to move mail I have received to a folder set up for that person.
Used to be able to do that. Any help out there? Thank you in advance.

What folder? Where is it located? How did you move it before?
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TuckerWheaten wrote:
I am unable to move mail I have received to a folder set up for that
person. Used to be able to do that. Any help out there? Thank you in
advance.

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: FileWork Offline (or double click Working Online in
the Status Bar). FileFolderCompact all folders. Don't touch anything until
the compacting is completed.

In ToolsOptionsMaintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background and
leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.

If compacting does not help, post back. Detail how you move the mail.
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Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
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"TuckerWheaten" wrote in message
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I am unable to move mail I have received to a folder set up for that
person.
Used to be able to do that. Any help out there? Thank you in advance.

You are talking Outlook Express and not Outlook, correct?

Chances are either folder to which you are moving the messages is corrupt or
the source folder is. Try creating a new folder and see if you can move the
messages to that folder. If so, then the original destination folder is
corrupt and you need to copy the messages to a new folder from it and then
get rid of it.

Also do points 2 and 3 here to help prevent corruption:
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx

steve

"TuckerWheaten" wrote in message
...
I am unable to move mail I have received to a folder set up for that
person.
Used to be able to do that. Any help out there? Thank you in advance.

"TuckerWheaten" wrote in
message
I am unable to move mail I have received to a folder set up for that
person. Used to be able to do that. Any help out there? Thank you
in advance.

Don't store messages in the Inbox. It is the folder most apt to be
corrupted. As soon as you read them move them to user created folders.
Then compact the Inbox regularly.

Go to Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder and write down where OE
is storing its data.
Close OE.
Go there with Windows Explorer and move (not copy) Inbox.dbx to an empty
Windows
folder. With Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3 it will be a hidden file.

You can use either of these tools to extract the messages from the old DBX
file:

DBXtract ($5): http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/ although this tool is faster
and better:
DBXpress: ($25) http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
Do NOT extract to the desktop!
With a large file this can take a long time, so let it keep running.

The messages can be dragged from a Windows folder back into an OE folder in
OE's Folder List.

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