How to resolve Outlook Express File size issues?

DBX Repair

Outlook Express is a most famous email client introduced by Microsoft. Outlook Express is bundled with windows operating system and available to user at no cost. Most of email applications store their mailbox data in file format but Outlook Express uses different procedure to save user mailbox information. Outlook Express uses separate folders to store emails. For every folder of mailbox there is a corresponding DBX file saved on user hard drive or user system. Extensions used for every mail folder is:

  

For Inbox: inbox.dbx
For Outbox: outbox.dbx
For Sent items:  sentitems.dbx
 

Outlook Express is a good application to work but also have some issues that hamper our work. Here I am sharing few common scenarios that make working of Outlook Express terrible. Every person who works with Outlook Express generally faces few common scenarios that obstruct our works. Scenarios like

•    Outlook Express freezes
•    Outlook Express denies opening and closing
•    Outlook Express file size crosses the defined limit i.e. 2GB

Here I will discuss about how to overcome with above difficulties and how outlook Express file size gets increase and their appropriate solutions       

How DBX file size get increase?
 

First of all I must tell you about file size of DBX file i.e. 2 GB. Very often for information (email conversation) exchange we use emails. With the incessant use of emails certainly data sizes also gets escalate. This raised volume of file directly affects Outlook Express folder size. Due to this increased volume of file Outlook Express behavior get abnormal and makes DBX file folders more prone to corruption. In fact reasons behind DBX file corruption is increased file size of DBX file.
 

How increase file size disturbs your DBX files:
 

Sometime while engaging any other message file in our mailbox we faced difficulties and after trying hard we are not able to put new message in our mailbox. Even user is not able to send message. This all happens due to increased file size. Increased file size make your Outlook Express mailbox corrupt and results in complete data loss.

Appropriate solution to overcome the situation
 

To deal with this condition primarily investigate for your size of DBX file. To check size of your DBX file follow the location:
“C:\DocumentsandSettings\\LocalSettings\ApplicationData\Identities\\Microsoft\Outlook Express”
 

After analyzing file size of DBX file there are various probable solutions to get back your Outlook Express mailbox:

Insert New Folder Method:
 

Delete the file which is creating problem and create a new folder of same name. Move all messages to file. E.g. if inbox.dbx is creating problem then rename it to inbox.dbx
Drawback: User will not receive any message in new folder and there are complete chances of deletion of data from mailbox
 

Manual Method:

Choose manual method to repair corrupted DBX file. Let’s see how manual method works:

Find location of Corrupted DBX file. To find location of corrupted DBX file follow steps given below:

1. Go to Run window and enter regedit.
2. In the Registry Editor Window will be opened. Expand the folders in the underwritten manner:
3. HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Identities > XYZ > Software > Microsoft > Outlook Express > 5.0
4. After reaching to location go to Store Root settings and do double click on it.
5. User will see path location of Outlook Express files. Now, copy the full path and move the mailbox file.

Following are steps to move copied file

•    Close Outlook Express application
•    Using command Ctrl+V paste the path in Windows directory
•    Now move all files to a new location
•    After copying delete all the files from the original location
•    Now Import the DBX file into Outlook Express.
•    Steps to Import files

• In Outlook Express point to File menu click on Import.
• Select the Outlook Express version from the list and proceed
• Browse to select the directory where the files are saved.
• Choose items you want to import

NOTE: Make sure while working with directory user will not do any alterations with registry because a small variation in registry will lead to data loss.

Drawback: Manual method will not provide complete assurance for recovery of mail box. It may be possible user will lose their data and moreover it is more time consuming and fails to perform in case of severe DBX file corruption

Automatic Method
In case if user is not able to perform above methods successfully then it is good to choose professional DBX repair utility. However in market there is variety of tools available to repair your corrupt DBX file. But I would recommend paramount software that gives complete assurance of DBX file repair. Name of software is Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery software. Following are marvelous features of this DBX repair utility that make this software in top list

•    Time saving approach
•    Let user search for DBX file automatically
•    Let user recover multiple DBX files instantaneously
•    Let user save repaired DBX file in desired file format i.e DBX or EML
•    Let user see preview of repaired emails
•    Complete assurance of no data loss

I would suggest you to opt for automatic method as it provide you more options as compare to other methods.