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compacted file extension conflict
by aweysham - 9/12/06 12:12 AMI've located the archived (or compacted) files deep in "Documents & Settings", but each file was saved with the default extension "dbx". The problem is my computer has allocated dbx extensions to Auto Cad and each Outlook Express compacted file shows the A-Cad icon. When I try to open it, the what program dialog box appears and OE is not on the list.
If I go to reset the extension and remove the allocation from A-Cad will that affect my A-Cad program and will OE then open the compacted files?
Andy
Re: dbx-entension
by Kees Bakker
- 9/12/06 12:27 AM
In reply to: compacted file extension conflict by aweysham
Aweysham,
Can you describe the context of this problem? This is your first post on this forum, and it's not clear why you should want to open this files from Explorer.
Outlook Express knows what to open (.dbx files in its store folder) when and Autocad knows what to open (these files, apparently) when run, and that's not dependent on the file association. The file association is only used when doubleclicking a file in Windows Explorer, but that's just not the way to open a Outlook Express 'folder'.
Moreover, the .dbx files from Outlook Express are neither archived nor compacted. They are the actual database of Outlook Express.
So please tell more.
Kees
dbx extension
by aweysham - 9/12/06 2:29 AM In reply to: Re: dbx-entension by Kees Bakker
OK let me explain further. I noticed that my email earliere than April 06 was missing, not in the Inbox. I alwayslet OE compact the mail when it ask. So I looked in the help files and saw that the compacted files were located deep in Documents & settings. So I went there to try to read some of that mail to no avail.
I read the help files on how to archive and did that and put it in a folder that was easy to access but then those files are still saved with the dbx extension. So if I dont access those through Explore then how do I? Thanks for your help
Re: accessing OE archive
by Kees Bakker - 9/12/06 10:59 AM
In reply to: dbx extension by aweysham
Use File>Import to import mails from the archive into your current files. Tools>Options>Maintenance shows where your current files are. And the archive is where you put it.
It's generally a bad idea to let Outlook Express do background compacting. I only do it myself, manually.
Read more about both of the above subjects in http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
I'm afraid you've lost your mail from before April, if you didn't make an accessible backup then. Like everything you don't want to lose, mail needs backup. And backup is only useful if you know how to restore the data!
Kees
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