Follow up on the Outlook problem.

[gemfyre]

After looking through files I discovered that my inbox, containing about 100 messages, was as large as my deleted box, which contained almost 3000 messages.

Conclusion, some e-mail was coming that is fucking huge and making Outlook freeze (mail was coming in, I just wasn't able to view it because the view window would never load and the program would freeze).

In the end I have saved a copy of the inbox in another folder and deleted it (saying bye bye - hopefully temporarily - to 100 useful e-mails that I never got to read). That worked, Outlook works normally again.

Now I just need a geek who somehow can manage to view the old e-mails on another computer or something and delete the offending spam so I can have my useful mail back again and actually read it.

Comments

[shewholaughs.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you've saved those maiils into a PST. The problem with PST files you can't open them in anything other than Outlook (I don't think) if you want to actually read them as mail.

If you change the default the profile that outlook opens to a blank one (rather than your hotmail one which is what I gather you have it set to now?) then you can open the pst that way and look at all the mail saved in there.

I have to deal with this every day, so I'd love to just do it for you ::growls in frustration:: but as I said, it's hard to explain without actually being there!

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Hotmail? *shudders*

Hehe nah my mail comes through the Perth based ISP that I am on.

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