Bill

Does any of your archived mail predate the introduction of OE6? Thus
have you imported folders using the OE6 option when you should have used
the OE5 option or earlier?


--


Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Bill Bradshaw wrote:
New and old.

Have made it the default indentity.

Have not stored on CDs and none are read only.

Need to get through my mail and then will start with another new
identity.
Gerry wrote:
Bill

Is the directdb.dll error occuring with the new or old identity or
both?
Have you made the new identity the one that opens when you start
Outlook Express?

Have you previously stored any folders on CD? Have you checked the
properties of the folders in Windows Explorer to see whether any are
Read Only?



Bill Bradshaw wrote:
Yes I am. I tried PA Bear's suggestions and went to the Microsoft
site and followed the compacting all suggestions such as closing the
folder view, making sure my virus program was not checking emails,
working offline, and compacting all and I still get the directdb.dll
error. I will try a new indentity again tomorrow.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Are you are still getting the directdb.dll error?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bill Bradshaw" wrote in message
...
I all ready tried creating a new identity and in fact am using it
now. I will try this again tomorrow. The problem is that it is
differenct folders everytime and of course once it happens on a
folder OE then stops and has to be shut down usually through the
task manager. --
Bill

Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Is this happening to every folder, or a select few? If the
latter, create new folders, move the messages to them and then
compact. If it is happening to many folders, create a new
identity. Import the messages and try compacting there. If
successful, just use the new named identity.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bill Bradshaw" wrote in message
...
Using File-Folder-Compact folder by individual folder blew up
the 3rd email folder I tried it on. Compacting has worked
reliably for years and now it can no longer be trusted. I am
still open to suggestions. --
Bill

Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska.

"Bill Bradshaw" wrote in message
...
I did try his offline, File-Folder-Compact All Folders and
what happened is it started messing up my email folders and I
can not have that. Fortunately I keep a backup so I was able
restore the folders that were damaged. That is why I am only
doing newsgroups. I am going to set through each folder, both
email and news groups, and compact them individually and see if
this helps. --
Bill

Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska.

"Gerry" wrote in message
...
Bill

If only newsgroups are compacted it would seem you are
selecting Tools, Options, Maintenance. CleanUp Now, Compact.
That is not what Bruce was recommending.
--
Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bill Bradshaw wrote:
Bruce Hagen wrote:
Head this and it should reduce the chance of a reoccurrence.

General precautions for Outlook Express:

Do not archive mail in the Inbox or Sent Items. Create your
own user
defined folders and move the messages you wish to save to
them. Empty
Deleted Items folder daily. Although dbx files have a
theoretical capacity of 2GB, I recommend about a 300MB max
for less chance of corruption.
Information about the maximum file size of the .dbx files
that are used by Outlook Express:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=903095

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.

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a
redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a
multitude of problems such as time-outs and account setting
changes.
Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you
sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 In Tools | Options |
Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in
background and leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.

And backup often.

Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

"Bill Bradshaw" wrote in message
...
I built a new identity and it finally compacted after
stopping a couple of times. Hopefully maybe it will now
start workingr reliably.

I follow all the suggestions at 903095 already. I do not
keep anything in my inbox, send, delete, etc. I do a manual
compact everday while offline and the only thing compacted
are the news groups and I only keep 12 days worth of message
in those folders (the
largest newsgroup file is 700 kB). One dbx file in my email
section is 57 mB. So it is not file size. This is really
strange. Fortunately my saved emails are not affected and it
just means I have
to re-download 12 days of the messages in the newgroup(s)
that are impacted by the compacting problem. I also keep my
messages in a subdirectory on partition E so they are not
mixed in with alot of other stuff.