I use Outlook Express for Newsgroups. I'd like to save copies of all my
Message in the Sent Items Folder.

I have it selected in the 'Tools, Options, Send" Keep copy in Sent Items.
Though it does not seem to work. It used to. as there are some message in
there from early 2005.

I've tries turning it off, closing down, re booting, turning it back on, no
go.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks,
Scott-

Sent Items became corrupt due to bloating. Move any mail remaining to a
local folder you create.

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the
location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise, write
the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

In Windows XP, 2K & 3K, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable
Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options |
View.

If you want to try to recover the mail, rename the dbx file to Sent
Itemsold.dbx. Then you will need one of these tools to try to get the
messages back. If they were lost during compacting, get the second one and
run it in disk mode.

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXpress: {much faster for large files}
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

If you don't want to recover the messages, then just delete Sent Items as
per below. If you want to get the messages back, do not compact until you
do.

With OE closed, find the DBX file for the folder in question {Sent
Items.dbx} and delete it. A new one will be created automatically when you
open OE.

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupt. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your
mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: FileWork Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status
Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the
compacting is completed.

In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background and
leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Scott Townsend" wrote in message
...
I use Outlook Express for Newsgroups. I'd like to save copies of all my
Message in the Sent Items Folder.

I have it selected in the 'Tools, Options, Send" Keep copy in Sent Items.
Though it does not seem to work. It used to. as there are some message in
there from early 2005.

I've tries turning it off, closing down, re booting, turning it back on,
no go.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks,
Scott-

Cool, Deleted the file. I'll see if this one is in there!

Thanks!
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Sent Items became corrupt due to bloating. Move any mail remaining to a
local folder you create.

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the
location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise,
write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

In Windows XP, 2K & 3K, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable
Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options
| View.

If you want to try to recover the mail, rename the dbx file to Sent
Itemsold.dbx. Then you will need one of these tools to try to get the
messages back. If they were lost during compacting, get the second one and
run it in disk mode.

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXpress: {much faster for large files}
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

If you don't want to recover the messages, then just delete Sent Items as
per below. If you want to get the messages back, do not compact until you
do.

With OE closed, find the DBX file for the folder in question {Sent
Items.dbx} and delete it. A new one will be created automatically when
you open OE.

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupt. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: FileWork Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything
until the compacting is completed.

In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background
and leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Scott Townsend" wrote in message
...
I use Outlook Express for Newsgroups. I'd like to save copies of all my
Message in the Sent Items Folder.

I have it selected in the 'Tools, Options, Send" Keep copy in Sent Items.
Though it does not seem to work. It used to. as there are some message in
there from early 2005.

I've tries turning it off, closing down, re booting, turning it back on,
no go.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks,
Scott-

Yahoo. It in a round about way fixed my problem.

There were some items in there, so when I deleted it, there were none. There
was a message though saying that since there is none, it might be because of
a filter that was applied. Sure enough there was a filter. Though since I
deleted it, there still was nothing.

Though I restored the file I deleted and low and behold all the messaged
I've sent other the last year or so are there! Yippee!!!

Thanks!

Scott-
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Sent Items became corrupt due to bloating. Move any mail remaining to a
local folder you create.

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the
location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise,
write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

In Windows XP, 2K & 3K, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable
Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options
| View.

If you want to try to recover the mail, rename the dbx file to Sent
Itemsold.dbx. Then you will need one of these tools to try to get the
messages back. If they were lost during compacting, get the second one and
run it in disk mode.

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXpress: {much faster for large files}
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

If you don't want to recover the messages, then just delete Sent Items as
per below. If you want to get the messages back, do not compact until you
do.

With OE closed, find the DBX file for the folder in question {Sent
Items.dbx} and delete it. A new one will be created automatically when
you open OE.

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupt. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: FileWork Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything
until the compacting is completed.

In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background
and leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Scott Townsend" wrote in message
...
I use Outlook Express for Newsgroups. I'd like to save copies of all my
Message in the Sent Items Folder.

I have it selected in the 'Tools, Options, Send" Keep copy in Sent Items.
Though it does not seem to work. It used to. as there are some message in
there from early 2005.

I've tries turning it off, closing down, re booting, turning it back on,
no go.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks,
Scott-

You're welcome, Scott, and glad to hear it's fixed. But please heed the
warning about archiving messages in the default folders, or you will lose
them completely at some point.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Scott Townsend" wrote in message
...
Yahoo. It in a round about way fixed my problem.

There were some items in there, so when I deleted it, there were none.
There was a message though saying that since there is none, it might be
because of a filter that was applied. Sure enough there was a filter.
Though since I deleted it, there still was nothing.

Though I restored the file I deleted and low and behold all the messaged
I've sent other the last year or so are there! Yippee!!!

Thanks!

Scott-
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Sent Items became corrupt due to bloating. Move any mail remaining to a
local folder you create.

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the
location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise,
write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

In Windows XP, 2K & 3K, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must
enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder
Options | View.

If you want to try to recover the mail, rename the dbx file to Sent
Itemsold.dbx. Then you will need one of these tools to try to get the
messages back. If they were lost during compacting, get the second one
and run it in disk mode.

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXpress: {much faster for large files}
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

If you don't want to recover the messages, then just delete Sent Items as
per below. If you want to get the messages back, do not compact until you
do.

With OE closed, find the DBX file for the folder in question {Sent
Items.dbx} and delete it. A new one will be created automatically when
you open OE.

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupt. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user
created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: FileWork Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything
until the compacting is completed.

In Tools | Options | Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background
and leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Scott Townsend" wrote in message
...
I use Outlook Express for Newsgroups. I'd like to save copies of all my
Message in the Sent Items Folder.

I have it selected in the 'Tools, Options, Send" Keep copy in Sent
Items. Though it does not seem to work. It used to. as there are some
message in there from early 2005.

I've tries turning it off, closing down, re booting, turning it back on,
no go.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks,
Scott-