Symptoms of DBX Corruption

September 15, 2008 – 9:14 am
The initial symptoms of DBX corruption usually begins unknowingly. You might notice that Outlook Express opens slowly when starting, or when switching folders. Simple tasks like marking a message as read might take several seconds. Such performance issues usually mean that some minor corruption has occurred but has not yet reached a serious level. If the corruption is wider but engrosses a single e-mail or news folder, Outlook Express might crash with this error when you try to open the damaged folder: Msimn caused an exception C0000006h in module Directdb.dll. The message could not be sent. There is not enough Disk space. In such cases, the corruption can usually be repaired by compacting all your Outlook Express folders. If compacting does not rectify the corruption, you will need to move all messages out of the damaged folder (if possible), close Outlook Express, and then delete the linked DBX file for that folder. If ...

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Understanding DBX Files

September 15, 2008 – 9:01 am
Let us try and get an overview of Outlook Express user files i.e. dbx files. Each folder that you see in the Outlook Express Folder list is stored on your hard disk as a single file with the same name as the folder but with the extension DBX added at the end, such as "Inbox.dbx" and "Sent Items.dbx". All these DBX email archive files are stored in a single Windows folder called Store Folder. The Store Folder is usually located deep inside Documents and Settings folder in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and is by default marked as a hidden folder. This makes it tricky to find your Store Folder in Windows Explorer, but there is a very good reason for this. One source of DBX corruption is trying to open and edit a DBX file yourself. It is sufficient to know that a message inside a DBX is not simply a ...

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Prevent your dbx file from corruption

September 15, 2008 – 7:50 am
If you follow these below mentioned steps outlined here, you will greatly reduce the chances that your DBX files will become corrupt. You should disable the default e-mail scan in your anti-virus program. If you have not installed Windows XP SP2, disable automatic background compaction. Keep minimum number of emails in your Inbox, you should move messages to other folders you create. Make sure that the Sent Items folder does not grow to an unmanageable size, it should be having less then 2000 emails. Compact all folders on a regular basis, such as bi-weekly, or more often if you make extensive use of e-mail or newsgroups. When compacting, do not use your computer until the process is finished. In addition, your Outlook Express should be in offline mode. Purchase a copy of DD DBX Repair for emergency use. Keep your computer and anti-virus products up to date with the latest patches. Backup your entire Store Folder on ...

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Change or Locate Outlook Express DBX store path

February 28, 2008 – 8:19 am
It is useful to know that Outlook Express stores its email files in a location such as the following: Windows 95 or Windows 98 %drive%\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express Where Windows is the folder in which Windows 95 or Windows 98 is installed.  Windows NT, and Windows 95 or Windows 98 with user profiles enabled %drive%\Windows\Profiles\Username\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express Where Windows is the folder in which Windows is installed, and Username is the name you use to log on to Windows.  Windows 2000, XP and 2003 %drive%\Documents & Settings\<User Name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\ {UID}\ Even if you are not able to locate the default path or would like to change the store path for your DBX files, follow this procedure On the Tools menu, click Options. Click the Maintenance tab, and then click Store Folder (Here you can locate the default store path of your DBX files in Outlook Express).  Click Change, specify the folder that you want to use to store your messages, and then ...

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Emails lost from outlook express inbox.dbx

February 28, 2008 – 7:46 am
This is the most common situation we face with Outlook Express as we loose lot of our important emails and moreover we do not know the exact reason.Outlook Express is a free component which gets installed with Internet Explorer which has been replaced by Windows Mail in Vista with Internet Explorer 7.0. But still today it is competing with email clients such Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird and Lotus Notes and has quite good number of users.Suddenly emails getting disappeared from our dbx folders could be a result of: Oversized DBX file Corruption caused after using Compact option Any other file corruption caused due to improper shut down or malfunction of any third party applications. The good news is that those lost emails can be recovered. First locate all your dbx files, the ost common path for DBX store folder is %drive%\Documents & Settings\<User Name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\ {UID}\ and backup all of them. Take a copy of all ...

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