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Comment from Shardik on 2008-11-25

2008-11-25T10:46:01Z

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

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Comment from Dino Barletta on 2008-11-14

2008-11-14T15:31:51Z

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

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Comment from Neil on 2008-11-05

2008-11-05T18:34:25Z

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.

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Comment from Thomas Richers on 2008-11-01

2008-11-02T01:09:30Z

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?

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Comment from robert bowers on 2008-10-17

2008-10-17T12:43:27Z

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

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Comment from ROHIT JAIN on 2008-10-06

2008-10-06T11:03:51Z

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.

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Comment from Kristian Jervell on 2008-09-23

2008-09-23T15:33:42Z

OE folder SENT Items is empty (overloaded)and content moved elsewhere ?

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Comment from mused on 2008-09-15

2008-09-15T09:07:10Z

when the Inbox is full arive to 3GB I move it to D drive
the problem when I return it to outolock express folder when I open outoluck express open in first once but don't show message see message" the outlock dont display this message when I closed the outoluck don't don,t show Message in Inbox
inbox is empty

please give me solution

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Comment from sanjay on 2008-08-20

2008-08-20T10:45:51Z

in - in box.,sent items full discription of message is not appering . how we have to resolve ?

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Comment from Walter Rubin on 2008-08-04

2008-08-04T17:15:11Z

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. I want to reconfigure Outlook Express's outbox maybe by renaming it etc. How do I do that? Thanks Leo

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Comment from Sajjad Ahmad on 2008-07-23

2008-07-24T05:55:14Z

Dear Sir,

Before the installation of window I took back of Window outlook express. now when i change the path of the folder and give it the path where i stored them. only Inbox folder donot show me any mail although the size of the filder with "dbx" extension is 507MB. but not a single mail is shown in it.

Sir i tried to import them from file-->import-->messeges-->specifies path but it give me answer that no messeges found.

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Comment from sal iozzia on 2008-06-21

2008-06-22T01:24:40Z

no matter how I try to create an account with outlook express I can not suceed. I'm always getting error messages everytime I try

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Comment from Leo on 2008-06-17

2008-06-17T23:09:57Z

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Comment from Diane S Sanfilippo on 2008-06-16

2008-06-16T08:06:37Z

All of a sudden I have some type of corruption in my Outlook Express folders. I cannot delete files from the inbox to deleted - once I get them in deleted there seems to be no problem, but I cannot get them into deleted. Doesnt' make any difference what type eml - some contain attached files, some do not... most do... but I cannot delete them - period. I tried to 'move' them from the in-box to the deleted folder... would not move. I do have one eml in the folder that I believe started the entire problem - and if I even click on it, Outlook Express locks and I have to exit... but soon my mail folder will be so full I won't be able to receive more.
Any suggestions?
Frustrated Grammy
Diane S Sanfilippo

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Comment from umeshj on 2008-05-31

2008-05-31T12:40:36Z

when double click a message is not open

it show corrupted file please reinstall

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Comment from cristian on 2008-05-06

2008-05-06T09:04:50Z

hello,
I have a problem with Outlook Express. I use it with my gmail account and it was working fine until few days ago. it started sending the mails but keeping them in outbox. no matter how many times I send them, they are still in outbox. please help.
c.

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Comment from Andrew Yew on 2008-03-28

2008-03-28T15:46:49Z

I have a work colleague who also faced a recent problem on some missing folders from Outlook Express.

When comparing the system folders in Outlook Express and the folders revealed by a free File Recovery Program, it showed that those missing folders were deleted but still remained in the Outlook Express system folders.

I attempted to recover one folder to check the contents, with the help of another paid software to recover corrupted .dbx files. It seems the contents of the .dbx file do not belong to the expected contents of the folder.

I suspect that this is a serious problem with Outlook Express 6.

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Comment from Libin Mathew on 2008-03-20

2008-03-21T03:31:14Z

While am Forwarding Any Mails Through,Some Sysmbols are attached on the mails,i found its a virus.How i can resolved the problem without losing any mails.

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Comment from James on 2008-03-13

2008-03-13T16:14:38Z

My father-in-law has been using outlook express for several years. Yesterday he noticed that several of his personal folders were empty. It seams to be random, but all of the emails in an affected folders are missing. Yet, some folders are intact. I’ve looked at the “stored” files and the folders are empty there as well. Unfortunately he has not backed up his email. We’ve read the Microsoft article and compacted the folders to find that nothing has changed. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Comment from Teresa Urena on 2008-03-11

2008-03-12T03:55:13Z

beginning March 3, 2008 I began having trouble deleting emails. When I hit "delete" the mail disappears but within a few min. I receive the message in my in box IN MULTIPLE. The last time I attempted, instead of hitting the X I went to the "deleted items" folder and pressed "empty deleted items". Now my email has about 80 emails attempting to come in but it usually times out. Any suggestions?

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Comment from tj schinsky on 2008-03-06

2008-03-06T19:38:01Z

I have read yours and numerous other articles but still cannot seem to restore my outlook express. It keeps telling me "the address book isnt installed properly" and yet i keep trying to update, re-install everything and no luck! I cannot mail OUT of express because of the address book error.

What i did was highlight and delete the address entries one day, so i could just copy my current outlook express address book from my desktop (this is laptop, sony vaio) to this computer, instead of importing and creating repeat entries.

I just want to start over with express but windows update says i have no updates available and i am stuck. Any help for me??

Thanks!!!

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Comment from Ken McGovern on 2008-02-27

2008-02-28T00:13:44Z

HELP!!! I run a business at home and have lost 2 folders in Outlook Express that I had created. Can't find them anywhere. I downloaded RegCure and did the scan and fixed the errors but that did not help. Hopefully you can tell me what to do. These are emails that I have saved over the past 3 years.

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Comment from LB PRICE on 2007-12-13

2007-12-13T17:12:08Z

I left my office the following morning came to my computer at work and my personal emails and account information of 13years was just gone. i was getting an error message stating it was deleted or something else... from outlook 2003 my personal email folder and now i cant find it anywhere microsoft techs cant even find it can you please tell me where in the world it could be or how to obtain this info. its soo important to me please help

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Comment from Tim Patona on 2007-08-29

2007-08-29T22:26:03Z

Bob Rankin web site directed me to you as expert on Outlook Express. I was backing up OE folders, and stopped at the point of selecting all files for copy to CD. Going back to OE, the folders are gone, and I cannot locate them. Please help?

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Comment from Hazel Connors on 2007-07-15

2007-07-15T20:00:34Z

I cannot delete e-mail messages after I have read them and no longer want them. I have tried the delete under edit; I have tried Control and The D on the keyboard. I used to have a toolbar with a delete button, but the whole toolbar disappeared, so using that delete option is out of the question. I'm sure there is a simple solution, but what is it? I can still send and receive e-mails, but now I have 297 e-mails piled up because I cannot delete them. Please help.

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Comment from katia on 2006-10-30

2006-10-30T14:19:54Z

I have the same problem.
The e mails I send are not stored in the Sent folder but when I click Find,I actually find them.please help me
Thanks

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