Hi I haven't followed this thread fully so don't know if my comments are
entirely useful ... Maybe they will be to someone one day searching the
internet. ;)
I've had issues with outlook express where I've had to go into the C
drive, find the folders where my mailbox is kept, and delete the inbox
file. In case you're not aware, the inbox is just one file. All your
other mailboxes such as Sent and any that you have setup are all single
files too.
The downside is that you lose all your email this way.
The next time you launch Outlook Express, however, it creates a brand
new empty inbox file which means you can start again from scratch and,
contrary to initial fears, it wil work splendidly from that point
onwards.
If you want to be able to see all your old email, there are some editors
available that I've used with some degree of success. You need one that
is able to render at least some of the outlook code so that it's human
readable. And the text editor needs a search function so you can find
those half remembered emails and email addresses that you know to be
important. Then That'll be a couple of hours of manual fine tuning. But
you can always keep the corrupt inbox file for later reference and dive
into it again if you later find there is some data from an old email
that you need.
It's no fun but Outlook Express has played this trick on me before. Note
that Windows Mail in Vista did a similar nosedive with me but I wasn't
able to fix it at all seemingly. I think they'd engineered it all
slightly differently.
...Damon
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Sent: 19 January 2010 17:57
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: outlook express still giving me trouble
Shea,
Try all of these steps, even if you've tried them before and let us know
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/oerepair.mspx
Barry
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Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:45 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: eyeliner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] outlook express still giving me trouble
Hi,
Sorry to come at you all with this again, but I am still having major
issues
with Outlook Express. Thought I had solved the major ones, but alas no.
Last
night it kept freezing, but now it won't let me delete messages again. I
have tried going into tools, options, and clean up. I choose compact,
and then reset. It keeps telling me that this will delete all cashed
messages and headers, and that the headers will get re-downloaded. I
keep pressing the yes button, and the same warnings keep coming up. I am
sure that it is doing absolutely nothing. I have tried rebooting, and
that hasn't worked either. I even tried last week, going into Control
panel and trying to repair Outlook Express but couldn't find the option
to perform a repair. I'm
using Windows XP home, 2003 with Jaws 10. Any help would be very much
appreciated. Thanks.
Shea
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