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

[Joel Deutsch]

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.