Outlook Express is prone to number of problems that can corrupt its mail folders. The frequent reasons causing this are increased size of mail folder and errors due to compaction. However, if the latest updates are applied and DBX has got corrupted due to compaction issues, you can recover it from its backup file stored in Recycle Bin. Other causes, such as unexpected shutdown, power failure and virus attack can also corrupt these files. This leads to data inaccessibility. OE doesn’t provide any built-in solution for repairing the corrupted DBX file. For this reason, you need to use third-party Outlook Express Recovery solutions in case no valid backup is available.For instance, consider a scenario of sending an email in Outlook Express. You send an email, which is successfully received by the recipient. The sent mail appears to be saved in Sent Items folder. But when you view the email, the body of the mail is empty or is filled with some other text, usually of an email that has been sent few time back.
Cause
Among other reasons, one of the possible reasons for this error to occur is corruption of Sent Items folder. This folder is saved as Sent Items.dbx on disk.
Solution
The solution required to be applied depends on criticality of data the damaged folder contains. You can delete, rename of repair the folder.
To delete or rename Sent Items.dbx, you should follow this sequence of steps:
· Exit Outlook Express
· Click on Windows Start option and point to its Find option
· Click Files or Folders and type Sent Items.dbx in the Named box
· You can select your primary drive in Look In box
· Click Find Now
· Right-click the folder thus searched
· Click Rename or Delete. You can rename the file to Sent Items.old.
· Restart Outlook Express and you will see a new empty Sent Items folder
To repair the damaged DBX file, you should use Outlook Express Repair solutions. These are commercial products designed with powerful OE file repair technology to result effective Outlook Express Repair. Such tools provide you interactive design to work with.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is an advanced tool to repair damaged DBX files created with Outlook Express 5 and 6. It is a comprehensive Outlook Express Repair tool that preserves the original formatting and content of the recovered contents. The tool is also capable to restore *.eml messages that can be directly viewed in Outlook Express.