Outlook Express File Corruption Due to Increased Size

Microsoft Outlook Express is an E-Mail Client, which comes with Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Outlook Express stores all e-mails, news, folders, contacts and other personal data in the form of DBX files. Outlook Express creates a separate DBX file for every personal folder like Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items and more. As you receive or send e-mails, the size of DBX files gets increased and when it becomes larger than 2 GB, the file may become inaccessible due to internal or structural damage. In such situations, you can not access your valuable data from the DBX file and need to opt for Outlook Express Repair solutions to resolve the problem.

The maximum size limit for the DBX files of Microsoft Outlook Express is 2 GB. If you do not delete the e-mails, attachments and other items from Outlook Express account, the size of DBX file may exceed the size limit and may create several problems. In Outlook Express, slow performance (as while opening emails) and DBX file corruption are common outcomes of increased size of DBX file.

In order to prevent the occurrence of such issues, you need to take the following steps:

(1) Create backup of all the DBX files to a safe location on your hard drive or other storage media.
(2) Do not save all your emails in a single folder, specially the Inbox folder. You should create special folders to divide messages into them viz. as per the sender or organization.
(3) Periodically delete unusable emails and other items.
(4) Compact the DBX file to decrease its size.

These precautions are helpful in keeping your DBX file functional, but if you have not taken them and your DBX file is already corrupt, you need to opt for Outlook Express Repair solutions to repair and restore damaged DBX files.

DBX repair is potential with the help of powerful third party tools, known as Outlook Express Repair software. These software are capable of methodically scanning the entire DBX file and extracting all its objects including e-mails, news, contacts and special folders.

These software come equipped with various recovery options, interactive and simple graphical user interface. Thus, they let you carry out Outlook Express Recovery on your own. With read-only and non-destructive design, these software serve as safe to implement solutions.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is the premier Outlook Express Repair solution to retrieve inaccessible data from DBX files. It supports Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0, 5.5 and 5.0. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista, XP and 2000.