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date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:55:21 -0800,
group: microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress
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Re: Message recovery
Below you say "ust do not store them in the Inbox as you risk corruption if
you allow the Inbox to become overly large."
Is this a known bug in OE5.5?
I have 1GB RAM running Windows 2000 and loads of disk space but I have twice
lost several months of emails when moving batches of emails around.
Also, when searching big emails (I must have 100,000 or more on file!) it's
as if OE cant see them all sometimes, even tho I have lots (75%?) of RAM free.
What should one do?
Upgrade to OE6?
David.
"Jim Pickering" wrote:
> If they are email messages, they will end with an extension of .eml and can
> be dragged/dropped from the present location into a local mail folder in
> Outlook Express. Just do not store them in the Inbox as you risk corruption
> if you allow the Inbox to become overly large.
>
> As to how they got there, it would seem that you or some other user is using
> Word to open email messages. Why, I have no idea since Word is probably the
> poorest choice to ever open an .eml file.
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
> Thanks.
>
>
> "Dulcibella-Bob" wrote in message
> news:36CEE55C-A244-439F-8B09-130CB98FE924@microsoft.com...
> > I've ended up with a load of email messages being transferred to one of my
> > Word folders. I can read the message in Word but not the rest of the email
> > details. How do i get them back into my OE folders?
> > Under Internet Explorer they are listed as "Internet E-Mail Message".
> >
> > And how did they get there in the first place!?
>
>
date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:01:01 -0700
author: astrodave
Re: Message recovery
Any DBX file that is large (over 100 MB in size) and is frequently opened,
written to, deleted from, etc., is prone to corruption because there is so
much wasted space in it. Compacting the file helps reduce the chance of
errors, but the DBX file structure overall, is quite prone to damage,
particularly if the compacting operation is terminated, or stopped in mid
stream. And both OE 5 and 6 share the same DBX file structure.
The safest policies are to compact routinely (at least once a week) and
never interrupt or stop the process until it completes with added protection
provided by frequent backups of the message store folder on another
partition or better, another physical hard drive as a routine practice.
If you messages are important to you, then those simple precautions that
take at best, a few minutes a week, are simple insurance measures that will
help prevent you ever losing your stored mail. For added info, see this
link:
The Other E-Mail Threat: File Corruption in Outlook Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
"astrodave" wrote in message
news:80D2A553-E0E5-469E-A637-BA8C1984CDDC@microsoft.com...
> Below you say "ust do not store them in the Inbox as you risk corruption
> if
> you allow the Inbox to become overly large."
>
> Is this a known bug in OE5.5?
>
> I have 1GB RAM running Windows 2000 and loads of disk space but I have
> twice
> lost several months of emails when moving batches of emails around.
> Also, when searching big emails (I must have 100,000 or more on file!)
> it's
> as if OE cant see them all sometimes, even tho I have lots (75%?) of RAM
> free.
>
> What should one do?
> Upgrade to OE6?
>
> David.
>
>
> "Jim Pickering" wrote:
>
>> If they are email messages, they will end with an extension of .eml and
>> can
>> be dragged/dropped from the present location into a local mail folder in
>> Outlook Express. Just do not store them in the Inbox as you risk
>> corruption
>> if you allow the Inbox to become overly large.
>>
>> As to how they got there, it would seem that you or some other user is
>> using
>> Word to open email messages. Why, I have no idea since Word is probably
>> the
>> poorest choice to ever open an .eml file.
>> --
>> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
>> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
>> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> "Dulcibella-Bob" wrote in
>> message
>> news:36CEE55C-A244-439F-8B09-130CB98FE924@microsoft.com...
>> > I've ended up with a load of email messages being transferred to one of
>> > my
>> > Word folders. I can read the message in Word but not the rest of the
>> > email
>> > details. How do i get them back into my OE folders?
>> > Under Internet Explorer they are listed as "Internet E-Mail Message".
>> >
>> > And how did they get there in the first place!?
>>
>>
date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:10:01 -0700
author: Jim Pickering
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