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

[albert griffith]

You shouldn't need to delete the folder just delete the messages after you
have a thousand or so.  I go one step further.  I keep messages I really
want to save in a folder on the web in a folder from another account I've
set up with my e-mail client.  It's the same provider.  This account doesn't
download to outlook it just stays on the web.  I'm protected from crashes
for free this way.  

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From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 1:37 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] How to delete and then recreate an OE folder,
please?

yes, I've done it. Everything's fine. I guess I'll delete my Sent items from

time to time from now on, rather than build such a huge file. It's just a 
head trip about how someday I'll drop dead from one of my so-called health 
issues and some biographer who gets permission and access from whoever I 
leave in charge of my hard drive to go through it to build up his or her 
story of my life, along with other research.

I'm laughing at myself because that sounds so crazily hubristic. In fact, on

those rare occasions when I want to save every bit of correspondence between

myself and someone else, for instance my 13-year-old friend, or the online 
literary journal with subfolders for accepted and rejected workk, and so 
fortg, I bcc myself and put the copy I receive from myself into their 
personal folder under Inbox.

Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 6:15 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] How to delete and then recreate an OE folder, 
please?


I think that should work.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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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