Outlook Express Store Folder

Appreciate some assistance.

In Outlook Express Tools>Options>Maintenance Tab, there is a Store Folder button. Pressing the Store Folder button goes to an address such as:
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\{9D2E2800-5A11-11D6-8A36-E573C96B8C40}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

At this address, the following files are found:
Deleted Items.dbx
Drafts.dbx
Folders.dbx
Inbox.dbx
Offline.dbx
Outbox.dbx
Pop3uidl.dbx
Sent Items.dbx
Cleanup.log

If one of these .dbx files is deleted, how can it be reinstated?

The reason for the question is the following: a friend has MSN Explorer 7 installed on the PC, and with it, web based email. The web-based email is received in Outlook Express.

In the OE mail tree it has the normal Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, etc., etc. folders, and following these, lower in the tree, is a reference to the web-based email with another set of the same (Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, etc.) folders under it.

The owner of the PC (senior citizen) keeps getting confused with these folders. Instead of going to the Inbox of the web-based account, he keeps going to the Inbox of what would correspond to a POP3 account, which he does not have.


Would like to trim the mail tree down so that it only displays the web based email and its set of folders (.dbx), but would like to know if this action would cause OE to go belly up.

Any thoughts?

Thank you in advance.

 

AFAIK, there’s no way to permanently delete the standard inbox.

 

I don't know if this will work as I don't have hotmail in my OE anymore but....

Go to Tools/options/general tab and uncheck the "When starting, go to my inbox folder "

In your OE folders pane, click the minus sign next to Local
Folders then click on the inbox of the web mail folder. Close OE and open again. Does it open in the same place or in "Outlook Express" folder? If it doesn't open in the web based mail, at least is the Local Folders closed so that the inbox for Local Folders hidden?

If not work then I'm just flapping in the breeze....

 

Thanks for the replies.

Closed the Local Folders tree and will see how that goes. OE now opens in the Inbox of the web based account.

Thanks again.