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

Sun May 10 23:12:30 UTC 2009

Hi,

I already just deleted the file and a new one was created next time I 
launched OE> It's not really a big tragedy for me. The only thing you or 
anyone could have done is show me how to resurrect a corrupted file, but no 
one did, so I just did the thing I knew how to do. And yes, we'll all have 
to so-called migrate (ordinarily, i'd just put quotes around the word, but I 
know most people don't have jaws or other screen readers set to speak thaose 
things, which means a lot is lost in the way of nuance) to Vista and that 
new equivalent of OE, and then we'll have to threaten to drive Microsoft out 
of business if we don't like how it works for us. I'll write the publicity 
release myself when I'm in a rhetorical mood.
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please?


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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Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 4:59 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>
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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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