Re: Is there a detect and repair function in OE?

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From: Bruce Hagen (Nospam_at_mymail.invalid)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:45:35 -0800

I suggest you read your original post and restate the problem. If you
don't use OE for your e-mail, what is the problem with the Inbox?
Deleting news messages does not send them to Deleted Items. As for
compacting, if you do it as stated, you shouldn't compound the
problem. You can't lose messages if you don't have any OE e-mail.

I have never seen any case where a default OE folder was deleted from
the message store, (With OE Closed), and a new one not recreated.

I don't know what else to offer without a better explanation of the
problem. 

-- 
    Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP - (IE/OE)
        ~IB-CA~
"Licensed to Quill" <fountainpen@amexol.net> wrote in message 
news:%23HbUjAi7EHA.2804@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> "A new one will be created automatically when you open OE"
>
> Unfortunately my problems continued when I did this as the deleted 
> items dbx
> folder wasn't recreated and no one seemed to know how to recreate it
> (manually). I now have two unread items showing (only showing, I 
> suspect
> they don't actually exist) in what looks like the deleted items 
> folder but I
> can't go to it, nothing opens when I try to do so
>
> "Do not archive mail in default OE folders"
>
> I dont think that is my problem: OE is not  my default mail reader, 
> only the
> news reader and I dont send all the much in the way of news 
> messages. I do
> note however that some of my inboxes  for about two or three 
> newsgroups are
> of the order of 17 megabytes in size. Surely THAT cant be causing 
> all these
> prolbems? (it isn't the sent items folder) Should I try compacting
> everything as you suggest one should do under normal circumstances? 
> I would
> have imagined that this might compound problems rather than cure 
> them?
>
>

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