OE does NOT have a hard limit of 2 gig. Your instructions all apply to
Outlook which is a different program. Additionally, OE does not have an
Archive function.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
After furious head scratching, Melanie asked:
| Hi Gary
|
| Outlook Express has a limit of 2GB... even close to this size is
| sometimes too much and the file will become corrupt or inaccessible
| due to it's size. Unfortunately, once it's corrupted due to size,
| there's no winding back the clock, however....
|
| There are repair tools available to assist you to fix corrupted
| files. As I don't know the software configuration of your machine, I
| have included a link below to a search on Microsoft's help and
| support centre for: Outlook Express Repair Tool. Please browse the
| results and pick the solution which applies to your software
| configuration, or feel free to search the site further for additional
| help.
|
|
http://support.microsoft.com/search...1033&query=outlook+express+repair+tool&mode=r
|
| I have used similar repair tools in the past, and they have worked
| reasonably well. The best solution of course, which you won't like
| is to manage the size of your email account on a regular basis, some
| suggestions to do this:
|
| - Get rid of what you really don't need - bin it!
| - Make use of the Archive feature, if you're not sure how to use it,
| read about it in the help section it's a great resource.
| - Make new folders (outside your inbox) and put only a month's worth
| of information in them (do this for your inbox AND sent items)
|
| I've posted your question and my answer on the Microsoft forum so
| others may benefit from our discussion. If you need more assistance
| in the future, please post your question to the forum instead of my
| direct email address. This will ensure you are not waiting for my
| response and others have the opportunity to help you who may have
| better solutions than I can offer you.
|
| Here is the link to the forum where this has been posted:
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...b1e9&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us
|
| Hope you have a great week!
|
| Kind regards - Melanie
|
| "Gary" wrote:
|
|| Please help: J
||
||
||
|| I have 5 years of mail in Outlook Express, so the file is very big
|| almost 2 Gig…. With 30,000 messages. However, now when I open
|| it, it only displayed 28,000 up through September 2008. So, I am
|| missing all the mail which I had downloaded in the last several
|| months. I had the big file of 30,000….
||
||
||
|| So, how to view/display all the 30,000 ???
||
||
||
|| Thanks.
||
||
||
|| Gary
||
|| In San Francisco
