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

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Joel, what file is it? I think I might be able to help as I have wrestled 
with OE for years now. (And of course, Microsoft has ditched it now -- I 
hope when I move to windows mail it will be more accessible than I heard it 
was when it first came out.)
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] How to delete and then recreate an OE folder, 
please?


Well it would help if I used the right term. I meant identities. However, if
you think you have the right length of file, you're on the right track.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
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Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] How to delete and then recreate an OE folder,
please?


> 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>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> 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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