[gui-talk] How to delete and then recreate an OE folder, please?

[Joel Deutsch]

Hi,

I know about multiple accounts only in the sense that means I have a couple 
of different addresses using the same ISP. I don't know anything about 
multiple accounts in relation to the .dbx files on my computer.In fact, I'm 
sure the one that's in that folder I mentioned is exactly the one I'm 
concerned with. If I do an alt enter on it for properties or just do a Jaws 
Say Line on its filename, it has about as many kilobytes as I'd expect for 
something so big. Multiple megabytes, of course. It's just that Windows 
doesn't list a file's size that way, on the filename line.

Well, I'll give it a try. I do wish there were some way I could repair that 
file, because I'm sure that file corruption is the problem, but I have no 
idea how to repair a file, the way I know how to do a Jaws repair or 
something.

if anyone knows, please tell me. I'll not delete that file right away, while 
I wait to hear.

Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] How to delete and then recreate an OE folder, 
please?


Sometimes, multiple accounts exist with e-mails of the DBX extension, but if
you know where your e-mail resides, then the way you described it, is
exactly how you recreate the sent items folder. Hope it goes well.
Sherri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 9:19 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] How to delete and then recreate an OE folder, please?


> It's been a long time since this topic came up on the list, which it does
> now and then. I've read those posts with some interest, but as I'd never
> in
> all the years I've used Outlook Express had any of the issues people were
> talking about, I didn't absorb and retain information about just which
> Windows file extension an email folder is outside of OE, on my hard drive.
> DX, or DLX, or something? And then there was something about how to delete
> and recreate a folder. I'd be satisfied to do that and lose the remaining
> 20
> or so saved outgoing emails that remain in that folder now, looking at it
> within OE, I mean, because I really don't think some biographer is going
> to
> want to read all the emails I ever sent to anyone over the last four and a
> half years since getting this computer. But my newly sent emails don't
> save
> themselves to this folder anymore, either, not that I can find in Sent
> Items
> here within OE, so I'm a little bit annoyed, because I count on being able
> to look back through recent sent items just in case I have to resend
> something.
>
> Now, I will easily find the folder where I'm keeping the email files. let
> me
> look at my hard drive and recall: Okay. It's all in c:\email. I set that
> up
> so I wouldn't have to hunt deep in some nested subfolders. And I'm
> reminded
> by looking that the extension is .dbx.
>
> Okay. How do I do this? I seem to remember you just close OE, then go into
> Windows Explorer and delete a folder (Sent Items.dbx, I guess) and then
> you
> launch OE and it recreates that folder, and messages begin to go into it
> again as long as I haven't reset anything in my Options?
>
> Is this how I do it? Thanks.
>
>
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