Re: Is there a detect and repair function in OE?
From: Licensed to Quill (fountainpen_at_amexol.net)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:36:02 -0500
"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
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> 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? What I
meant by the original post was that I dont actually use OE as my dafault
mail program, only as my default news program. I do have one or two
mailboxes on OE as I was on a few occasions forced to give a mail address
when registering for something or other and had to make up a mailbox,
thinking that I was going to get spammed when I did by some company which
wasnt going to send me any real or important mail. So I do have about five
or six messages a month coming in through OE and perhaps one or two people
who have found my e-mail address somewhere or other and contact me through
newsgroups off the group. So there isnt much important there and I now have
about ten items of spam which I need to delete. My view is that I should be
able to delete what is there as opposed to should be able to delete it IF I
use it as a default mail reader. But again I regard my OE mail use as
absolutely minimal
> 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.
So what should I do? Back up all important folders and the record of how
which newsgroups to which I am subscribed somehow, delete OE and reinstall
it? Is there a procedure for doing this? Is there a file which shows which
news servers I use and which groups I am subscribed to in them?
At the moment I can go out of, reboot and go back in to OE without a deleted
items folder: WHen I did a simple Windows 2000 search, I found the folder
and deleted it according to the instructions and it wasnt recreated. WHen I
do a search now, it isnt found at all. And somehow, there are those two
records of two pieces of spam in the deleted items folder which probably
don't exist.
OR did the original search I did reveal two spurious files called
deleted.dbx and in reality I didnt delete anything because the deleted items
file cant be found with a simple search?
The only other symptom I have is that certain newsgroup folders dont
actually update when I go into them. In fact certain active folders show as
not highlit in the pane on the left as if they are unused or inactive
newsgroups with no messages in them (as if Kadiacha Man got peeved one day
at something or other his psychiatrist told him and he brooded about it in
his padded cell for a few hours and then started a newsgroup about this
peeve and no one ever went to it or contributed to it and the originator
lost interest after a few bwahahahah messages he put in it back in 2002 and
it died)
> 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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