Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Write the location down and navigate to it in
Windows Explorer or, copy and paste it into Start | Run.

In WinXP, the .dbx files 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.


"Babs" wrote in message
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| Okay, I found the Store Folder but it only allows me to change where I
want
| files stored, does not allow me to delete anything, and I don't see
Deleted
| Items.dbx...where is that?
|
| "Michael Santovec" wrote:
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| You can determine the location by looking in OE at Tools, Options,
| Maintenance, Store Folder.
|
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| Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
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| "Babs" wrote in message
| ...
| where is the "message store folder"?
|
| "Jim Pickering" wrote:
|
| Then the problem is most likely with a corrupted deleted items
| folder.
| Close OE, go to the message store folder, find and delete "Deleted
| Items.dbx" and then restart Outlook Express. Also make sure you
| compact
| your message store folder often while working offline.
| --
| Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
| Please reply to newsgroup only.
|
|
| "mike" wrote in message
| ...
| It is not with certain folders. I restart, open OE, read some
| email,and
| delete or move it to a folder. At some point, I am unable to delete
| any
| email
| from any folder. The deleted folder does empty upon exit.
|
| "Jim Pickering" wrote:
|
| If it's only with certain folders, the folders may be corrupted.
| Try
| creating new folders, and move the messages into those new
| folders, then
| close Outlook Express, and use Windows Explorer (WinKey+E) to
| navigate to
| the message store folder and find and delete the DBX files with
| the names
| of
| the problem folders. You can also try a compact of your message
| store
| while
| working offline since that can often repair "minor" corruption in
| the DBX
| files in the store.
| --
| Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
| Please reply to newsgroup only.
|
|
| "mike" wrote in message
| ...
| I use WINME,MSExp6,Firefox,EZArmor Security. I did have NAV and
| had this
| same
| problem. I am ususally unable to delete email messages from
| various
| folders.
| Set to empty deleted folder upon exit and this works. I have
| used
| repair
| tool
| in add/remove programs, but problem persists.Any suggestions?
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