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

Sun May 10 22:56:41 UTC 2009

it's okay. I've done it already. Some day maybe I'll learn how to inspect 
and possibly repair a corrupted file, but in this case my main thought was 
that I didn't really need to keep scores of thousands of messages I'd sent 
people, and also that a system that works by creating  a single file out of 
a folder's worth of messages, as OE does, is found to be troublesome 
sometimes. I know audio and video files can be pretty big, too, but they 
don't seem as vulnerable to getting messed up mysteriously as these huge OE 
.bbx files.

But I'm good for now, like/as they say. I lost a bunch of messages I'd not 
likely be looking at again for the most part, and I'm starting out with a 
nice clean Sent Items folder that I ought to check from time to time and 
clean up or just delete the contents of now and then. If I really wanted to 
archive message folders, I suppose I'd just rename the Sent Items.dbx file 
occasionally and learn a strategy for accessing its messages again in the 
future if I wanted to review them. Or something.

From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 2:59 PM
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>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
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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