I have recently returned to using Outlook Express 6 after spending the

past 3 months evaluating Thunderbird. A problem has arisen in deleting

unwanted messages from OE. On about a third of all incoming messages I

am unable to delete them after reading and no matter what I do in

adjusting settings, I have failed to correct this. Have searched

Microsoft’s help pages for a remedy without success.

Any advice will be much appreciated.

RemoveThisBit,

 

Outlook Express has it's own newsgroup:

 

microsoft.public.oulookexpress.general

 

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

 

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"removethisbit" <""sutor\"@(removethisbit)ozemail.com.au"> wrote in message

news:468ede4c$0$12827$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...

> I have recently returned to using Outlook Express 6 after spending the

> past 3 months evaluating Thunderbird. A problem has arisen in deleting

> unwanted messages from OE. On about a third of all incoming messages I

> am unable to delete them after reading and no matter what I do in

> adjusting settings, I have failed to correct this. Have searched

> Microsoft’s help pages for a remedy without success.

> Any advice will be much appreciated.

1. Move any messages that you want to keep out of Sent Items and Deleted

Items folders and into other folders you've created for archiving (saving)

such messages.

 

2. Write down the location of your identity's store

(http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#storemain).

 

3. Close OE.

 

4. In Windows Explorer, navigate to your store folder, find & delete the

files Outbox.dbx, Sent Items.dbx, and Deleted Items.dbx.

 

To avoid such problems in the future:

 

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local

folders created for this purpose.

 

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

 

- Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently

perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at

http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

 

- WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is

automatically compacting your message store.

 

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such

corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

AumHa VSOP & Admin DTS-L.org

 

removethisbit" <""sutor\"@(removethisbit)ozemail.com.au wrote:

> I have recently returned to using Outlook Express 6 after spending the

> past 3 months evaluating Thunderbird. A problem has arisen in deleting

> unwanted messages from OE. On about a third of all incoming messages I

> am unable to delete them after reading and no matter what I do in

> adjusting settings, I have failed to correct this. Have searched

> Microsoft’s help pages for a remedy without success.

> Any advice will be much appreciated.