Outlook Express Problems: My folders are empty, corrupted or just not working - what do I do?

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My sent items folder is full and messages can't be displayed, error showing: low memory or disk full, i want to view my messages in sent items, please help.

Lately I am not able to delete messages, unless I push shift delete, which I understand deletes them permanently. Also when I go to the deleted items file it gives me the message that outlook express cannot open this file. Any idea whats going on? I am not real computer savy, so I hope it is something I can fix. Thanks, Bob

I haven't found a solution to this one:
My OE inbox had about 20 000 messages. Now it only has 14 000. All messages from 10/31/2008 back to 12/30/2007 are longer there. New messages are there, ancient messages, too. But 10 months are missing in all folders. I tried sorting by senders, tried DBXtract. Nothing.

Any ideas?

Outlook Express 6 has blank (white) page on log in and stays in this mode. emails are received but not able to view due to the white screen. drop down menus and icons at top are visable, then below them only blank?? has anyone come across this problem b4, thanks, neil.

Outbox in Outlook Express is sending message but it's stuck in my Outbox unless I delete it-it gets sent over and over again. The emails will not go direct to my sent items box. I think the Sent items is corrupted, as it deleted all my emails this morning, fortunately I was able to recover, but it wont allow me to transfer BACK into my Sent Items box... Everytime I send a message, it says error, but list no fault code in the box.... Thanks Leo

If everything else fails if you cannot find your messages back, have a look at Foxtract.
This tool scans your corrupted dbx file and will extract your e-mails, even if the trees are corrupted (Outlook Express uses tree structures to retrieve the messages).

This tool is free, GPL licensed, the source code are freely available.

--> http://code.google.com/p/foxtract

i set up a gmail account on outlook express every thing works i know im getting the message but nothing shows up in the inbox

Re Neil Nov 2008

I have the same problem as Neil post! How do you fix this?. I did not see an answer to this problem. Please help!. I have Mc afee and have back up with Norton Ghost Thanks Sue
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Outlook Express 6 has blank (white) page on log in and stays in this mode. emails are received but not able to view due to the white screen. drop down menus and icons at top are visable, then below them only blank?? has anyone come across this problem

I can't able to view my Inbox mail in outlook exress,
i Restore inbox.dbx but still i have facing this problem, i able to view all mail folder i.e. sentitems,drafts, all folder. but i am facing this problem in just inbox.

plz help me

All of my emails are going to the deleted folder in Outlook Express. How do I fix this? Please help!

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