How to Fix & Repair Outlook Express Folders and Folders.dbx?

Question

Fix and repair Outlook Express Folders and Folders.dbx file without
loosing Folder Structure.
Fix "Currently in Use" error when compacting
Instructions:
A) Find your Outlook Express Store Location: Outlook Express, Tools,
Options, Maintenance Tab, Store Folder. Write down the location or
select the text using your mouse and right click and select copy. Now
Click Cancel. Close Outlook Express completely.
B) Browse to the store folder location from step 1 (the fastest way
is to open any folder and paste the location into the address bar).
C) Rename the Store Folder by adding a .bak to the end. For example:
Outlook Express
to
Outlook Expires.bak
Note: Although not necessary, you may wish to make a safety copy of
the Outlook Express Store Folder before starting step 3 above (for
example, make a copy and call it "Outlook Express Safe Backup".
D). Create a new empty folder in the same location with the exact
same name as the original (without the .bak obviously), e.g.: Outlook
Express
E) Start Outlook Express and select: File, Import, Messages, [Your
Version of Outlook Express], Import Mail from OE6 Store Directory,
Browse to the Folder you renamed (the one with the .bak, in our
example: Outlook Express.bak).
F) Complete the Import Wizard and the import will begin.
This will import all your outlook email and freshly rebuild all your
folders including the file Folders.dbx. Your folder structure will
also be imported.

Answer 1

First of all, its probably not necessary to generate a new message store

just because of folders.dbx being in use. If you go to File | Work offline

after rebooting and just starting OE, then one can usually fix the issue.

But its a lot easier just to go to File | Identities and setup a new

Identity which will give you a clean message store and a new registry hive

and then the user can go to File | Import | Messages and import from the

older Identity. This is a proven method for resolving many issues.

See next solution dbx repair

OE-Mail Recovery will give a lot of useful instruments

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Answer 2

Outlook Express Restore software will be apt applicable tool to fix or repair Outlook Express folders and folder .dbx files. It is safe and sound app that kept back whole data in healthy format after recovery process. I have also tried it for the same which supports all windows OS & provides satisfying result.



Additional detail & Demo for trial can be get from this link- http://oe-dbxrecovery.blogspot.com

Answer 3

I recommend Outlook Express dbx Repair Tool is a dbx repair tool. I found that it is much more effective than all other similar software at repairing and restoring emails for corrupted or damaged DBX files. You can also recover deleted emails. Additionally, it functions as an extractor as it allows you save emails as several EML format files.Free tool is available here:- http://www.undeletepcfiles.com/outlook-express-dbx-recovery.html

Answer 4

You can use RecoveryFix for Outlook Express recovery software which is capable of recovering entire email items from a user mailbox including images, message properties, attachments etc.