Outlook Express Disaster (a primitive writes...)

[kugelrund]

This was a cry-for-help thread about a computer problem which I subsequently solved.

I'd delete it if I could.

[kugelrund]

Outlook Express Disaster (a primitive writes...)

I found out what to do and fixed it.

Now all I need to know is how to delete a thread.

[WOM]

Outlook Express Disaster (a primitive writes...)

You can't.

[kugelrund]

Outlook Express Disaster (a primitive writes...)

Marvellous.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Outlook Express Disaster (a primitive writes...)

Ah right - we can't delete threads any more? That's a good thing about the new board, then.

[kugelrund]

Outlook Express Disaster (a primitive writes...)

I suppose it's good in that it stops people getting pouty and deleting 40-page threads that others have devoted a lot of time to, contributing quality writing and reasoned debate, or even spectacular abuse.

[WOM]

Outlook Express Disaster (a primitive writes...)

Seconded. But I'd have left BSS's problem posted in case others have the same issue one day. Not that he posted the resolution, but still.

[kugelrund]

Outlook Express Disaster (a primitive writes...)

*Cough*

I didn't think of that. No public spiritedness, some people.

Briefly:

My ancient laptop crashed; I somehow lost all the emails in my Sent Items folder in Outlook Express.

In Windows | Application Data | Identities there's a file in curly brackets. (It's somewhere else in later operating systems, I think - I've got 98SE on this).

A couple of levels inside that is an Outlook Express folder, with all your mail folders as .dbx files.

I had Sent Items.dbx, Sent Items(1).dbx, plus another called Sent Items.dbt

The first two were small files and I threw them away.

The .dbt was huge, so was obviously the original. I renamed it .dbx.

I also deleted the Folders.dbx file. When I went back into OE, all the missing emails had returned.