With the increasing number of e-mails received and forwarded on daily basis, it becomes very difficult to maintain a records of all the e-mails. To save the hard drive space and to effectively manage all the e-mails, it becomes necessary for the Outlook Express users to delete all the unwanted e-mails. While deleting the e-mails is an easy task, it becomes difficult when you try to erase a virus-infected e-mail. In such situations, you encounter an error message that does not allow the user to delete that e-mail. Furthermore, there might be probabilities that after the above error message appears, the user is not able to access any of his data saved in the Outlook Express database. In such situations, the user needs to restore the database from an up-to-date database backup. However, in case of deficient, corrupt, or damaged Outlook Express database, you need to repair the database using a commercial Outlook Express Recovery application.To explain the above situation clearly, consider a real-time scenario where you attempt to clean some of the unwanted e-mails from your Outlook Express database. While doing so, you encounter a failure error message from MAILER-DAEMON@mail09b.bellsouth-hosting.ne that the email can not be deleted. The two consequences that might follow after the error message are:
· The computer freezes and the applications stop working.
· After rebooting, the Outlook Express database becomes inaccessible.
Cause:
The root cause for the above situation is corruption in Outlook Express database due to a fatal virus attack.
Resolution:
To get past the above error message and to access all the data saved in Outlook Express database, follow the below situations:
1. Rename the corrupted .dbx file and then restart Outlook Express.
2. Delete the database and restore it from an updated backup.
3. However, if in case of no valid backup, use a powerful Outlook Express Recovery application to repair the corrupted database.
Such Outlook Express Recovery Tool are competent enough to repair any corrupted Outlook Express database, irrespective of the cause of logical damage. The repaired database files can be restored at new or default location.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is a safe and easy-to-operate DBX repair application to repair .dbx files created in Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000, the read only Outlook Express Repair Tool saves the repaired file in .dbx or .eml file format.