OT - Outlook Express Losing Its Mind

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I thought I should give this one some closure. Blame this one on the man
behind the curtain. After trying all your suggestions, I checked more
closely and noticed I'm running Outlook Express 5.1 on this machine - the
rest are on 6.0. At the time when I had upgraded the workstations to W2K
and added SP3 and ran windows update to get all the latest security patches
and program versions, I missed this particular workstation. I never did get
around to doing anything but SP3 on this machine - no updates. (I'm sure no
one else on this group gets their workday fragmented like that.) So Outlook
Express stayed at 5.1. And I remember hearing 5.1 had plenty of bugs - this
may have been one of them. Until I can do the updates, she deletes
everything in the inbox before she leaves for the day. Then she can access
everything from her deleted items folder.

Thanks for all the help.
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Shafer [mailto:rshafer@...]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:02 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] OT - Outlook Express Losing Its Mind


Gary,

This can happen when the file which holds all the "Inbox" messages becomes
corrupted.
If Outloox Express detects a corruption it will re-create a new Inbox file.
If it detects a corruption in any of those files ( Sent Items, Drafts, etc.)
it will re-create the file as empty.
Which of course wipes out all of the messages you had in the paticular
folder.

If it is happening everyday, have you run a check on the hard disk?
Perhaps it has a bad area where the file keeps trying to write itself.

Rich


----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Polvinale
To: Vantage Group
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:37 AM
Subject: [Vantage] OT - Outlook Express Losing Its Mind


Anybody ever have Outlook Express losing its Inbox? Every morning, one
particular workstation loses all the messages in its Inbox. And the
"Welcome to Outlook Express" message is sitting there all by itself, as if
I
had just installed it. I've looked through the menus - can't figure what
it
might be. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD



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Anybody ever have Outlook Express losing its Inbox? Every morning, one
particular workstation loses all the messages in its Inbox. And the
"Welcome to Outlook Express" message is sitting there all by itself, as if I
had just installed it. I've looked through the menus - can't figure what it
might be. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD


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Gary,
It sounds like its forgetting where its files are. You should be able
to find where that is controlled and reset it.

Shirley

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Polvinale [mailto:garyp@...]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:37 AM
To: Vantage Group
Subject: [Vantage] OT - Outlook Express Losing Its Mind


Anybody ever have Outlook Express losing its Inbox? Every morning, one
particular workstation loses all the messages in its Inbox. And the
"Welcome to Outlook Express" message is sitting there all by itself, as if
I
had just installed it. I've looked through the menus - can't figure what
it
might be. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD


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We've had a lot of strange experience with Outlook. Two scenarios have caused what you describe: One is that the inbox has exceed some unknown "maximum size" that tends to lock up folders in Outlook. We are persistently trying to get users with 1,500 to 5,000 emails in their inbox to move them to various folders.

Second scenario was that on XP boxes, the antivirus software was making the inbox disappear for some odd reason. Turn the AV off, and there were the emails. An update to our Scan engine on that PC seemed to clear up the problem.

There is an excellent web site that Ted Kitch sent me that gives all the Tips and Tricks for OE. The site now resides at:
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideOE/index.htm

There is also a DBEXTRACT program that can get your messages out of any .dbx file even without Outlook installed on that machine. We've used it to 'rescue' corrupted email files.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics


----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Polvinale
To: Vantage Group
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:37 AM
Subject: [Vantage] OT - Outlook Express Losing Its Mind


Anybody ever have Outlook Express losing its Inbox? Every morning, one
particular workstation loses all the messages in its Inbox. And the
"Welcome to Outlook Express" message is sitting there all by itself, as if I
had just installed it. I've looked through the menus - can't figure what it
might be. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD


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check under Tools - Message Rules - Mail and look for a rule that is moving
or deleting...

TGIF!

Regards, Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Polvinale [mailto:garyp@...]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:37 AM
To: Vantage Group
Subject: [Vantage] OT - Outlook Express Losing Its Mind


Anybody ever have Outlook Express losing its Inbox? Every morning, one
particular workstation loses all the messages in its Inbox. And the
"Welcome to Outlook Express" message is sitting there all by itself, as if
I
had just installed it. I've looked through the menus - can't figure what
it
might be. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD


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Gary,

This can happen when the file which holds all the "Inbox" messages becomes corrupted.
If Outloox Express detects a corruption it will re-create a new Inbox file.
If it detects a corruption in any of those files ( Sent Items, Drafts, etc.) it will re-create the file as empty.
Which of course wipes out all of the messages you had in the paticular folder.

If it is happening everyday, have you run a check on the hard disk?
Perhaps it has a bad area where the file keeps trying to write itself.

Rich


----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Polvinale
To: Vantage Group
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:37 AM
Subject: [Vantage] OT - Outlook Express Losing Its Mind


Anybody ever have Outlook Express losing its Inbox? Every morning, one
particular workstation loses all the messages in its Inbox. And the
"Welcome to Outlook Express" message is sitting there all by itself, as if I
had just installed it. I've looked through the menus - can't figure what it
might be. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD



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Wow. It sounds as if Microschlepp is at least consistant. Lots of good
advice here. I'll try it all. In the words of Howard, Fine, and Howard -
"Nyuk, nyuk... I'll take you all on, one at a time." Once again, thanks for
the help.

Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Shafer [mailto:rshafer@...]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:02 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] OT - Outlook Express Losing Its Mind


Gary,

This can happen when the file which holds all the "Inbox" messages becomes
corrupted.
If Outloox Express detects a corruption it will re-create a new Inbox file.
If it detects a corruption in any of those files ( Sent Items, Drafts, etc.)
it will re-create the file as empty.
Which of course wipes out all of the messages you had in the paticular
folder.

If it is happening everyday, have you run a check on the hard disk?
Perhaps it has a bad area where the file keeps trying to write itself.

Rich


----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Polvinale
To: Vantage Group
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:37 AM
Subject: [Vantage] OT - Outlook Express Losing Its Mind


Anybody ever have Outlook Express losing its Inbox? Every morning, one
particular workstation loses all the messages in its Inbox. And the
"Welcome to Outlook Express" message is sitting there all by itself, as if
I
had just installed it. I've looked through the menus - can't figure what
it
might be. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
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