deleteditems.dbx file is huge, but empty?

Hi there, I'm trying to help out a pretty computer illiterate friend who is having problems with her Outlook 6. I don't have any experience with outlook so i've been digging around a lot on forums like this.

I backed up all her .dbx files yesterday and ran a recovery on them with an old freeware version of DBXtract. It worked fine on most of the folders but it didnt work on the DeletedItems.dbx.

This is a 1.5GB file with approx 6000 files in it. It took two hrs to run through the extraction but when it was completed the output folder was empty.

Any ideas how I can access the emails in this file?

Thanks!

 

Is there really something in there that is needed? If not, Delete the folder and it will be rebuilt the next time you open OE up.

http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=69528

Look at the 3rd post.

 

According to her, yes there are some 6 year old emails she wants to keep. She blames some technician for deleting them.

I had to rename inbox and let outlook rebuild her inbox.dbx. I will try to do the same to the deleteditems.dbx.

Also, reading your post about folders within folders - I think she has done this too. I think she it went like this:

Inbox
-> Folder1
->Folder2

I should I make her change that too.