How to Repair Damaged Attachments in Outlook Express

Microsoft Outlook Express allows you to send and receive files as attachments with emails. You can send and receive files of various applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. This is an easy way to send files, but sometimes the received attachments can not be opened due to corruption. The data stored in attached files becomes inaccessible and you need to carry out Outlook Express Repair to repair and restore the damaged attachments.

When you try to open or save attachments, which you have received through e-mail in Microsoft Outlook Express, you might come across the below mentioned error message:

“Cannot save the attachment, can't create file abc1.tif. Right click the folder you want to create the file in and then click properties on the shortcut menu to check your permissions for the folder”

This problem occurs even if you have logged in as administrator and have full privileges to access all of the Outlook Express folders. This behavior of Microsoft Outlook Express makes the attachment and its data inaccessible.

Root of this issue

You may experience this problem with Outlook Express attachments due to the following reasons:

• If you have enabled “Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus” option. This option is enabled by default in Outlook Express 5 and later versions. When any attachment with the file type, which is reported unsafe, is received, it can not be opened and the attached file is made inaccessible by Outlook Express.
• The attachment is corrupted and Outlook Express can not recognize it. The corruption could be caused due to virus infection or an attached file which was already corrupt.

In both of these situations, the above error message occurs and the attachment can not be accessed. To overcome this problem, you need to carry out Outlook Express Recovery.

Resolution

If you are experiencing this problem due to enabled security option, then you can resolve it by disabling it. If an already corrupt attachment is cause of the problem, then you need to perform Outlook Express Repair to sort out the issue.

This can easily be performed with the help of third party Outlook Express Recovery software. These software can scan the damaged attachments as well as DBX files and can repair and restore them.

Outlook Express Recovery is a powerful Outlook Express Repair tool to revamp the damaged attachments and all other objects of DBX files. It supports Outlook Express 6.0, 5.5, 5.01 and 5.0. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.