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

[psionicspear.livejournal.com]

whose your isp?
Most isps let you access your inbox from their webpage, so you can look directly at the email's on the web, and delete them before any program (ie, outlook) deletes them.

[shewholaughs.livejournal.com]

Woman have you never archived your mail as a PST file before?!?!

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Uhhhhh.

I don't even know what that means....

[shewholaughs.livejournal.com]

Oh dear god!! If you're using outlook, you can archive mail into a PST file. Then you can add that file in as a profile and access any mail saved in there. It's rather hard to explain in text tho... I'll look for a website if you want?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I think I know vaguely what your meaning.

Do you mean the file of my inbox? I've found that and when I open it in Wordpad I get familiar headers of mail I know was in the mailbox already and a bunch of gibberish, which I guess is the content. I don't know when one e-mail starts and another ends.

I've saved that elsewhere incase someone works out how to access it and remove whatever is causing Outlook (Express) to lock up so I can put it back in it's correct place and read all the other mail in there. Problem is my b/f doesn't know where to put that file in XP (I have Win98SE, he has XP Pro) and says it's a totally different file type anyway.

Another friend suggested finding a program to download that could open the big file as individual e-mails (pretty much make sense of the gibberish). Is this what you're talking about?

Either way, show me a website, I'll take a look. :)

[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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