Re: OE6 Database corrupt?

From: Jim Pickering (jimp_at_mvps.invalid)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:01:07 -0700

Both the Hotmail and MSN versions of webmail have consistently had problems
with integration in Outlook Express. While they may work fine for weeks and
even months, there will come a time when the setup just "chokes" and there
is no other option than to use the web interface. So, I stick with the web
interface all the time. I find it less irritating than trying to guess
whether it's my setup, my network or the servers having problems. Your
choice. 

-- 
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
Please reply only to newsgroup.
"Carl" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:58db01c47480$9b097260$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks, I'll try your suggestions.  While we're on the
> subject, though, maybe you could explain the problems
> I've been having with my Hotmail and OE6.  The messages
> can't be read (Unknown Error) in OE6, and as I described,
> if I move them to a local folder they disappear in a few
> minutes.  If I reset them to 'unread' on the web they can
> be accessed again via OE6.  I must say it does seem like
> some evil process is running in my system...
>
> /Carl
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Did you first create an empty folder on the other drive
> to contain the
>>message store files?  If not, you may have destroyed
> them yourself and they
>>may now not be recoverable.  Please provide more info on
> how you "changed"
>>the location to another disk and someone will try to
> help.  Do you have any
>>DBX files in more than one folder on more than one drive?
>>
>>Have you searched for any DBX file that have a number
> appended, i.e.,
>>Inbox(1).dbx, Inbox(2).dbx, etc.?  If so, make copies of
> those files in a
>>new folder, say on your Desktop and then download
> DBXtract ($5) from
>>www.oehelp.com to extract the contents as eml files from
> the damaged,
>>corrupted DBX files.  You can then drag/drop the eml
> files into a local mail
>>folder in Outlook Express.
>>-- 
>>Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
>>Please reply only to newsgroup.
>>
>>
>>"Carl" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
>>news:516401c473fe$62a82290$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Hi!
>>> Suddenly one day all my mail headers had disppeared!
>>> Judging from the file sizes, the mail bodies and the
>>> database files are still intact, but OE6 won't find
>>> them.  I reinstalled OE6 and changed the location to
>>> another disk and it worked fine for a day, but then it
>>> happened again... McAffee didn't find any virus with
> the
>>> 4.3.20 engine and the DAT file from 26/7.
>>
>>.
>>

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