[gui-talk] How to delete and then recreate an OE folder, please?
albert griffith
albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 10 13:15:45 UTC 2009
I think that should work.
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Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 9:19 PM
To: GUI-Talk
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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