Guest removethisbit Posted July 7, 2007 Posted July 7, 2007 I have recently returned to using Outlook Express 6 after spending the past 3 months evaluating Thunderbird. A problem has arisen in deleting unwanted messages from OE. On about a third of all incoming messages I am unable to delete them after reading and no matter what I do in adjusting settings, I have failed to correct this. Have searched Microsoft’s help pages for a remedy without success. Any advice will be much appreciated.
Guest Newbie Coder Posted July 7, 2007 Posted July 7, 2007 Re: Problem deleting messages from Outlook Express 6 RemoveThisBit, Outlook Express has it's own newsgroup: microsoft.public.oulookexpress.general http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) "removethisbit" <""sutor\"@(removethisbit)ozemail.com.au"> wrote in message news:468ede4c$0$12827$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au... > I have recently returned to using Outlook Express 6 after spending the > past 3 months evaluating Thunderbird. A problem has arisen in deleting > unwanted messages from OE. On about a third of all incoming messages I > am unable to delete them after reading and no matter what I do in > adjusting settings, I have failed to correct this. Have searched > Microsoft’s help pages for a remedy without success. > Any advice will be much appreciated.
Guest PA Bear Posted July 7, 2007 Posted July 7, 2007 Re: Problem deleting messages from Outlook Express 6 1. Move any messages that you want to keep out of Sent Items and Deleted Items folders and into other folders you've created for archiving (saving) such messages. 2. Write down the location of your identity's store (http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#storemain). 3. Close OE. 4. In Windows Explorer, navigate to your store folder, find & delete the files Outbox.dbx, Sent Items.dbx, and Deleted Items.dbx. To avoid such problems in the future: - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is automatically compacting your message store. - Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org removethisbit" <""sutor\"@(removethisbit)ozemail.com.au wrote: > I have recently returned to using Outlook Express 6 after spending the > past 3 months evaluating Thunderbird. A problem has arisen in deleting > unwanted messages from OE. On about a third of all incoming messages I > am unable to delete them after reading and no matter what I do in > adjusting settings, I have failed to correct this. Have searched > Microsoft’s help pages for a remedy without success. > Any advice will be much appreciated.
Recommended Posts