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Resolved Need help with Outlook Express 6

Discussion in 'Microsoft Mail (Outlook / OE / Windows Mail)' started by breezemommy0402, 2011/05/06.

  1. 2011/05/06
    breezemommy0402

    breezemommy0402 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Admittedly, I am very slack in cleaning out my email messages. This morning, with some time on my hands, I decided to try to work on getting rid of the 10k+ messages that were in my inbox - some dating back to 2007!

    I was doing this in "bulk ", by going to "find message ", choosing something like "ebay ", then deleting all messages that fell into that category.

    I've done this before without problems. However, this morning, I suddenly (without any reason that I know of) went from having 9000+ messages to 2000+ messages in the inbox.

    NOW, no new messages will show up! I can see that I am receiving messages and that I have them, but when I click on "inbox ", the new messages aren't there and the number showing unread messages disappears. The last message showing in my inbox in from March 2009.

    This doesn't seem to have affected any other folder (deleted, sent, etc.) or even the subfolders of my inbox!!

    Help????

    Thanks!
     
    breezemommy0402,
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    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Welcome to WindowsBBS :)

    The maximum folder size for OE is 2 Gb, but OE starts to play funny over 500 MB and I guess your Inbox was way over both 'limits'.

    Best suggestion is to create a new folder - InboxOld and move any emails that you want to keep into that folder.

    Then search for *.dbx folders - include hidden files & folders and - with OE closed - delete Inbox.

    Restart OE and Inbox will be recreated. Move your mails from InboxOld into Inbox and delete InboxOld, bearing in mind the size considerations noted above.

    See if that resolves the issue.
     
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