[CorvetteTex]

throoper,,,,,,,your the man! or Women! Can't tell by your name Your suggestion to delete my item sent box .dbx and the outbox.dbx WORKED !!!!!! YEA ! I tried the delete Outbo.dbx only an that didn't work . Then I went in and searched both the outbox and send box and deleted them and that worked. My emails are flying out of the out box and into the sent file with no errors ! THANK YOU SO MUCH !

P.S. When I search the Item Sent Box.dbx that file showed like over 2,000,000 kb in it. I guess when you delete the sent file in Outlook Exp it really doesn't delete.

[throoper]

Hi CorvetteTex,

Glad that worked for you.

Your file size won't go down until you Compact Messages. Deleting the DBX causes OE to make a new one, which also reduces the size.
If you have XP with the SP2 update, OE will automatically compact every 100 times it's opened.
BAK files are created and sent to the Recycle bin during the process. Use those to restore messages if you lose any from Compacting.

If you have a high volume of activity, Compact more often.
File>Work Offline
Click the Outlook Express folder so all folders are closed.
File>Folder>Compact All Folders
Walk away from the computer until it's done.
Check that everything is OK in OE.
File>recheck Work Offline.

To keep things running well, don't store messages in the default OE folders (Inbox, Sent Items, and Drafts). Move them to folders of your own creation.

T.

[tulangs]

Hi all!

TQ throoper! i also having same issue yesterday and i tried few ways.. lastly i read ur last msg need to compact all folders after delete outbox.dbx and sent items.dbx.. and its works!!
tis forum really great!!! n now im one of the member.. TQ

[craigmca]

After months of this problem and deleting my outbox and creating a new identity without any benefit, I finally realized my sent items box was overloaded and was keeping sent items from moving from the outbox to the sent items box. As soon as I deleted a bunch of my sent items that box had room to recieve from the outbox and all was well again. No more messages stuck in the outbox and being re-sent over and over and over. Wow. What a relief.

[terrace]

good news

[xeneizita]

Thank you very much for all your suggestion, I tried lots of Spanish forums (I'm Argentinean) and I couldn't solve my problem.
Let's hope that with your help I can make it

Regards

[EAFiedler]

Hi xeneizita

Welcome to Tech Support Guy Forums!

Good luck and let us know your results.

[xeneizita]

It worked!!
The thing is that I was only erasing the Outbox.dbx file and not the Sent_Messages.dbx file.
The sent message folder wasn't full because I regularly move sent mails to new folders that I create such as " sent emails 2007" for example. But despite that the file "sent messages.dbx" weight 2GB.

So I removed all the sent emails from the "sent message folder" to another folder and then I deleted the Outbox.dbx and Send Messages.dbx files (also just in case I deleted the backup file for the sent messages folder).

The I sent like 8 emails with several attachments and NO PROBLEM AT ALL

PS: pardon my English

[EAFiedler]

Well done!
Thanks for posting back and letting us know your results.