Re: Can't get OE6 with XP upgrade to work
From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/12/04
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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:58:02 -0500
"peter" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have been using OE for some time as my newsgroup
> reader. I just upgraded to XP from Win98SE and upgraded
> to a bigger drive. Since I upgraded to XP, OE has refused
> to load. I get the following messages:
>
> "Unable to open Outlook Express message store." (Followed
> by a suggestion I need more memory of disk space)
> and
> "MSOE.DLL could not be initialized."
> The properties of MSINN.exe identify it as version
> 6.0.2800.1106
>
> I have 512MB of memory with lots free, and a 120GB driver
> with lots free, so I doubt that's the problem.
>
> I have tried to re-install it, but if I use the install
> program for Internet Explorer 6.0 (IE6SETUP.EXE), I am
> told it already exists and it refuses to install. I have
> tried "Remove Window Components" from the Install/Remove
> Software icon in Control Panel, but it doesn't seem to
> remove it. I have even tried just deleting the files from
> the OE program directory, but they are always "in use by
> another program", and can't be removed.
>
> I am guessing that my program store files are in the wrong
> place due to XP upgrade not handling them correctly. Can
> someone tell me what the DEFAULT message store directory
> location of XP should be? Obviously under the user name
> somewhere - unlike Win98SE.
>
> Any other suggestions as to how to get it going would be
> appreciated.
>From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/directdb.htm
Errors in DIRECTDB.DLL or MSOE.DLL generally indicate corruption in the
message store.
Start by moving Folders.dbx to an empty Windows folder (with OE closed).
Note: the DBX files are hidden in Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3. You will lose
your folder hierarchy and the lists of newsgroups on the news servers, but
it might get you into OE.
If that doesn't do it then move all of the DBX files to the same folder as
Folders.dbx (again with OE closed). You should now get into OE. Try
importing the messages from
the folder you moved the DBX files to. If you can't, you can use this tool
to extract the messages:
DBXtract (free):
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/
Note: It can take a long time (days with really large folders).
The messages can then be dragged from the Windows folder back into a folder
in an open instance of OE.
-- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email http://www.fjsmjs.com Protect your PC http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
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