Retrieving archived files

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I know you can compact your files and they are saved in
your stored folder as a .dbx file. How do you retrieve
it. I can't get them to open.
 
"marlotee" said in news:[email protected]:
I know you can compact your files and they are saved in
your stored folder as a .dbx file. How do you retrieve
it. I can't get them to open.
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Compacting your information store (all the .dbx files for each folder
shown in OE which are kept together under your identify path) does NOT
archive anything. Compacting physically purges all the delete-marked
items from those files so the files get smaller. When you delete an
item, it goes into the Deleted Items .dbx file. If you delete it from
there, or if you permanently deleted an item (Shift+Del) then it gets
its status changed to Deleted. That does NOT physically remove the
delete-marked item from the .dbx file so it continues to consume space.
When you compact your information store, all those delete-marked items
get purged from the .dbx files (along with some other optimization, like
compressing multiple white space), resulting in smaller .dbx files.
Compacting gets rid of the delete-marked items. It does NOT archive
anything!

If you want to archive items, you will have to use the File -> Export
menu in OE (or maybe some program to do it for you). Outlook Express
doesn't have the AutoArchive function of Outlook.
 
"*Vanguard*" said in news:[email protected]:
"marlotee" said in news:[email protected]:
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By the way, you are asking about Outlook Express (which uses .dbx files)
in a newsgroup for Outlook (which uses Exchange, .pst, and .ost files).
Outlook Express and Outlook are not the same product, they are not
siblings of each other, OE isn't a lite version of Outlook, they don't
share code, they aren't NOT related. If you want further help, post to
a newsgroup for Outlook Express.
 
*Vanguard* said:
OE isn't a lite version of Outlook, they don't share code,
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Although Outlook requires the presence of Outlook Express in versions from
OL2000 on.
 
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