Are all those emails in one folder? OE has a limit of 2gb per folder, might want to check into that. I'd not keep anywhere near that much in any one folder in OE.
Mike On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Colin Cody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, suddenly my Outlook Express 6.0 running under MS XP service pack 2 > stopped recognizing a double click or a right click for email attachments. > > Meaning that I can not open the attachments and I can not even save the > attachments to disc with a right click, to then open from the disc. > > I found that I am able to save the attachments by doing: File / Save > Attachments. This is not a satisfactory fix to the problem though > > What I have done so far: > > I've tried deleting all the files in the directory C:\Programs\Outlook > Express. With the intent of copying a set of files from another computer. > But as soon as I delete them the system "magically" re-creates than all > over > again. The problem still exists. > > I've just deleted about 10,000 email messages, thinking maybe too many > messages could be the problem (I may have 100's of thousands of > messages, for all I know) The problem still exists. > > I tried to download OE service pack #1 from the Microsoft website. The > message was that my current copy is newer than the download, permission > denied. > > Of course I've shut down the computer (for an hour) and then booted. > I rebooted several times today. The problem still exists. > > I have a backup on my Windows Home Server, but I do not know what files or > directories to restore to get yesterday's copy of Outlook Express 6.0 or > whatever the offending issue is. > > No, I have not installed any new software today. > > Yes, I have Symantec Antivirus running all the time. > > Yes, I have just run a "quick scan" from Symantec Antivirus. > > Any ideas? > > Colin > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
