How to fix large dbx files in outlook express

I have files dbx with a mailbox store that exceeds the 2 GB size limit. I'm looking for any tool from Microsoft to fix this. I found a few third-party tools, but they are not very useful. Is a Microsoft tool?

No. that's why the 3rd party tools have been written.  The best is mine (DBXpress- www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/).  I know because I wrote it.

Seriously, you cannot repair a file of this type.  The only thing you can do is to extract messages, if it still contains messages.  Sometimes files get wiped out and filled with zeros and then nothing can extract messages from a file filled with zeros.  You can try to compress the file and if it zips down to nothing, it's what is in the file: nothing.  If this is the case, then my DBXpress program is the only one who has the extract from disk feature that will bypass the file system and to analyze the whole hard drive directly to messages.   If they are still on the clusters of disk somewhere, it will recover them.

But we can't let a dbx file get above a few hundred megabytes, otherwise it is subject to corruption.  The backup of dbx files as bak files before compression file (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2) has been added just in cause of this question - so many people have let their records become too big and then when compacting the files would be loaded with zeros (and software antivirus made it worse).

So the best thing you can do in the future is to save often (there are FREE on my site tools - see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#6) and keep the size of the files dbx under a few hundred megabytes.

Steve

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