Compacting folders in OE6 seems corrupt

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• Don't ask me again on compacting folders

  Whenever I delete an e-mail from the Inbox, I wonder if I want Thunderbird to automatically compact folders. Is it possible to stop this?
  When I compact my files everything that happened was losing all my emails, apparently for good so I never do this again!

  In the toolbar > Options > advanced > network and disk space. and compact auto power off.

  You will need to probably first notice lack following mail when you click on mail and it is simply not displayed. We see a lot of that here as well. It of the same loss of data, without the re-indexing causes compaction. A bed of mails that already existed.

  If you have seemed to lose mail in the past, it is usually because at one point in the past. Before compacting your anti virus program has removed all mutant trying to destroy some risks invented.

  The folks over at svmantec have been completely indifferent when I tried to address their destructive tendencies. The fact that click on allow Norton to fix deleted any Inbox dating for years to remove something that was totally inert apparently was Ok. And it must be! Customers continue to give their money and by publishing the complaints year after year, or as you blame something else entirely.

  For the year people come here with three misconception.
  1 thunderbird loses regularly mails. I used it almost 10 years and my household is rubbish. (a few 18 000 emails in my Inbox consuming about 2.3 GB of storage) I've never lost a mail unless I did something stupid first and then only once or twice. He sends the past Thunderbird has certainly had problems of file over 4 GB in size and lost. This is no longer the case.

  2. what compaction does something on the compression of mail. It is not compression is the compression. A nuclear explosion creates a compression wave that compact removable items. Similarly, compaction in Thunderbird takes a sparsely populated data file and place messages closer together by removing deleted messages used to occupy the space.

  3. that their anti virus program is actually an interesting product. Most of the problems with mail, data loss and inexplicable reboots or programs and windows itself can be parked just in front of the doors anti virus vendors. That's why Microsoft are really trying to squeeze out them quietly and without any finger pointing. This would create any dispute. So, we get Microsoft Security Essentials, then Windows Defender, now of Microsoft Family protection. None of these are better than the third-party products and often leave gaping holes. But they result from the fact that gives Windows anti-virus software a bad reputation. Mac users are not something like windows for questions users suffer in connectivity, and it's not because OSX is really better.

• Why has my Inbox & all folders in OE6 disappeared today?

  I am completely current with my NAV updates/weekly scans, monthly checkdisk and defrag so I doubt that's the issue.  It was working fine this morning & then all of a sudden, the Inbox disappeared from the Outlook bar & when I tried to check other folders that I created within the Inbox, they disappeared as well.  I do not understand why this happens all of a sudden.  I'm always very careful and do not open emails that I recognize so I BLOCK them before opening a.  If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please be as specific as possible with your instructions or I'll lose me.  Thank you very much.

  View | Page layout. Checking: Folder list. All records other than the default folders are missing?

  There are two possibilities:

  1. A new OE identity was created.
  2. The entire OE message store was wiped out. Analysis of e-mail can cause this.

  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.

  Do you see a second identity with another OE folder? It contains the missing files? If Yes, note the location and in OE: file | Import Messages. Follow the prompts and import from this location.

  If there is not a second identity, your message store is gone.

  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  About file Corruption:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

  Recovery methods:

  If you use XP/SP2 or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.

  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.

  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.

  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.

  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.

  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.

  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.

  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:

  DBXpress run in extract disc Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
  http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/default.aspx

  And see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

  A general warning to help avoid this in the future:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

• I did a lot of smart folders, but they seem to have disappeared, what to do?

  I did a lot of smart folders, but they seem to have disappeared, what to do?

  You may have accidentally hidden albums.  The library panel Inspector hid 'Show' and 'Hide' controls to the right of the titles of 'Albums', 'Projects', etc.  Move the cursor to the right of the title 'Albums' and look if the albums will be displayed, if you click 'Show '.

  

• The folder in Inbox disappered after "compact folders" applied (and installed Lightning). MSF file seems to stay at the disk again. How to restore the folder?

  I have several folders in the Inbox.
  The last time (for months) Thunderbird asked to compact files. Last week, I deleted unnecessary messages in folders and applied "compact" on the Inbox (root) folder.
  Today, that I discovered that one of the folders inside the Inbox disappeared. However when I look at the e-mail on local disk storage I still see msf file with the name of the record lost in the Inbox.sbd folder.
  I also have installed lightning and Thunderbird update week last next to compression of files.
  Can I restore folder in the Inbox?

  is there another file of the same name, other than the MSF?

• Inbox completely empty after compacting folders

  I had more than a hundred messages in my Inbox and they all disappeared after compaction. All other folders / accounts seem to be intact

  Thunderbird had to be closed in the first place.
  then delete the file popstate.dat
  and then restart Thunderbird.

  Please verify that you have completely left Thunderbird before you delete the file.

  and then restart Thunderbird.
  Usually at start-up, Thunderbird will check messages on the server.
  Otherwise, click "get Messages".

• TWO wanted work stations, one with my working files and other with personal folders. It seems that spaces works with windows, no records.

  I have OS X 10.11, El Capitan, on MacBook Pro.

  I would like to have TWO offices and one with my files to work with personal folders.

  How can I do this?

  I looked at spaces, but it seems to work only with windows, no records.

  "with my work folders and the other with personal folders": you can not do this.

  The best method is to create two accounts: a personal and a professional. What accounts are for. Pass from one to the other may takes 2 seconds.

• I have problems when I shoot in raw + jpeg. RAW files seem corrupted!

  I have problems when I shoot in raw + jpeg.  It seems that the raw files get corrupted.  I shot raw without a problem.  It's only when I shoot in raw + jpeg.  Raw files will not appear in Photoshop elements.  I installed the Canon software and could see all the raw files; However, I noticed that when I tried to post some full screen they would not show.  I also noticed that these block-ish look raw files.  They appear more digital research.   Is there a specail required in RAW + jpeg map?  I formatted ones I have before their use.

  Thank you all for watching my post.  I shoot with a 60 d using Photoshop Elements 10.  Finally, I called Canon tech support and found out it was the card reader that was causing problems.  When I used another card reader, I was able to transfer the Jpeg and raw files.  They advised me to connect the camara to the computer to transfer files.  I learned to use a card reader and have for years.  It was the first time, it caused me problems.

• Gel after compacting folders

  Hey guys

  I had the huge profile (due to very large inboxes) folder and despite this, the performance of Thunderbird was awesome.

  The problem is that my installation is on a SSD where space is very limited and I went compacted all folders on all accounts (I have 3 email accounts).

  The reclaim space was huge! I managed to recover about 10 GB of all accounts, I have so been happy as a puppy from here there!

  The problems started the next time I open Thunderbird! Now, my Thunderbird takes something like 10 minutes to open and be ready to work!

  I have run the client and after launch it freezes just for 5 to 10 minutes without being able to do anything... After this big that short time without lag or slowdown, it is only during the launch!

  As you can imagine it's horrible when you are in a hurry to send an email or check an urgent e-mail that await you...

  I already thought to delete the files from my profile and let Thunderbird recreate them again, but I was trying to avoid this.

  Any suggestions on how to fix it?

  Matt said

  serial_killer said

  Matt said

  Compact writes new files. and removes the 'old'. If your anti-virus is analysis of the profile folder, it could be he's always trying to digitize and Thunderbird and there are fighting for who gets access. That is why the terrible performance.

  What? This makes no sense... As soon as new files are created, they are scanned and since he only found is nothing, they don't if analyses again until they are changed. As it happens also before compacting, so if this would be the case, the behavior would be the same before compacting!...

  If complete analysis of your cleats of logic. Anti virus scanners usually take around 10 minutes per GB and a 4 GB e-mail folder is not all that uncommon. Given a 40 minutes required to scan that folder/file. How long to analyze your full profile? Also note that the overall messages database is often a multi GB file that is updated on every send or receive. Thats why he is eligible by virtue of your logic for a new analysis about every 10 minutes while you use the program, if not more often. and will likely 10 times which scanner is completely.

  It is for these reasons, it is recommended that the profile folder are exempt from anti virus access program as well as update scanning.

  I understand your logic and I understand what you're trying to say, but it does not always meaning pertaining to this particular situation!

  Yes I know antivirus could be vying for access to the file, but my profile is set as an exception in my antivirus (using this machine is built in windows defender on windows 10).

  So, following your logic, my profile folder now occupies about 12 GB after compacting. And before the compaction has been MORE than 20 gbs! So according to your logic, it should be much worse before the compaction of the records only after!

  And as I've already said, before the compression load time program was almost instantaneous! now, it takes 5 to 10 minutes! Understand?

  Look, I'm a computer engineer, I'm not a stupid user who do not know that talk, and it makes me MAD when moderator can give an answer like that in this situation!

  But don't worry, I found a solution by myself, simply delete the file from the Inbox in the profile folder and let Thunderbird download e-mail at the request and now he is great to work again.

  I'm Mark as resolved.

• "Compact folders" destroyed the links in tabs. Content tab empty. This is not acceptable. This has been a problem for as long as I can remember.

  Not sure compact electronic mail records. Content tab will disappear. Uses dangerous tabs. Help appreciated.

  Uh, what you have is tabs? I like a calendar and troubleshooting information and the compaction does nothing for them.

• Does "compact folders" Act on all or only on the current account?

  I wonder if I need to go to each account and compact, or just do it once.

  Depends on where go you.
  It is my understanding that if you select Compact from the file menu drop-down it's all records.
  Selecting folder, in that you are in fact right click menu.

• Download seems corrupted...

  ... Press Cancel, wait a few minutes and try again. -(60).

  Please see attached screenshots.  If I try as a test, I get a warning of incorrect checksum.  I also had a 102 and yet I still have 200 GB left on my drive.  When you try to download via the adobe Installer, I get a corrupted file error (-60).  What gives? I was now all of the afternoon. Same problems with Flash Builder.  Other applications installed fine, but I really need first.

  

  

  Has proved to be a bad modem. I discovered this after I couldn't get the mac update not work either.  Got a new modem and all is great.

• Outlook Express 6 just ate the value of year of my emails. They seem to have disappeared. This happened after I was asked if I wanted compact (or was it archive?) my emails.

  Outlook Express 6 just ate the value of year of my emails.  They seem to have disappeared.  This happened after I was asked if I wanted compact (or was it archive?) my emails.  All hope of recovery?

  Thank you!

  Please read this in its entirety. It includes the restoration of the trash.
   
   
  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.
   
  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  Recovery methods:
   
  If you are running XP/SP3, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.
   
  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.
   
  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.
   
  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.
   
  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.
   
  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.
   
  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.
   
  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.
   
  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:
   
  DBXpress run in extract disc Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
  http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/default.aspx
   
  And see:
  
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
   
  A general warning to help avoid this in the future:
   
  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.
   
  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 
   
  And backup often.
   
  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx  

• Outlook Express in the "compact" XP files I lost all messages in folders to recycle as per the BAK doc

  Frequently, Outlook Express 6 wants to "compact" file. I welcomed that this and this time lost all messages in the folders of Outlook Express. They appear in recycle as per the BAK how doc do to restore the trash by the Doc to the folders in Outlook Express?  Also, how can I preclule this loss in the future?

  Thank you

  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  About file Corruption:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

  Recovery methods:

  If you use XP/SP2 or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.

  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.

  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.

  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.

  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.

  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.

  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.

  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:

  DBXpress run in extract disc Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
  http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/default.aspx

  And see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

  A general warning to help avoid this in the future:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

• OE6 compacting emails, three months have disappeared. How to open the archive.pst file?

  Using Windows XP and OE6. I want to open the folder to archive and get the messages back to my Inbox.

  Not use Outlook Express dbx, pst files.
   
   
  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.
   
  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  Recovery methods:
   
  If you are running XP/SP3, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.
   
  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.
   
  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.
   
  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.
   
  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.
   
  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.
   
  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.
   
  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.
   
  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:
   
  DBXpress run in extract disc Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
  http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/default.aspx
   
  And see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
   
  A general warning to help avoid this in the future:
   
  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.
   
  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 
   
  And backup often.
   
  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx