Outlook Express Stops Responding on Clicking Inbox

Store Folder shows the collection of *.dbx files, each named after the folder it represents. It is recommended to give special attention to folder like Inbox and Sent Items, because of the reasons like they grow comparatively promptly. Thus, corruption is more likely due to oversize issues. Other reasons of corruption could be unexpected shutdown, antivirus scanning and application bugs. Irrespective of the reason behind, you should restore the lost emails from your latest backup. If this doesn't work, you need an appropriate third-party Outlook Express Recovery solution.

To illustrate such scenarios, suppose you use a large Inbox in Outlook Express. You observe that whenever you click to view the Inbox emails, the application hangs with no clue. Sometimes, you may notice that the application cannot recover from this situation and you need to perform close shutdown.

Cause

The above reason is most likely to occur due to corruption in Inbox.dbx file. The file can get corrupt, mainly because of oversize issues above 2 GB.

Solution

Outlook Express recreates the default mail folders that it finds missing or deleted at launch. So, you can temporarily resolve this issue by deleting or renaming the folder. Outlook Express identifies the mail folders only with their original names. Thus, you can apply the following sequence of steps to solve this issue:

1-You should first close Outlook Express to restrict the Inbox from receiving more email messages.
2-Next, you need to click Start | Search (or Find) | Files or Folders
3-To locate the Inbox.dbx file, you should type the file name in Named box
4-The file can be located in your primary drive, so you can opt for it in Look In box and then click Find Now
5-You can click Rename option that comes when you click right-click the file
6-You can rename the file to Inbox.dbx or OldInbox.dbx and click OK to save the settings
7-The folder will be automatically recreated as you restart Outlook Express

To repair and extract emails from corrupted Inbox, you need to Recover Outlook Express using a powerful third-party tool. tools are efficient at applying high-end and safe scanning algorithms that can repair a damaged OE file.

Outlook Express Repair is an infalible and non-destructive product that repairs and restores corrupted *.dbx files. The comprehensive tool to Recover Outlook Express uses advanced scanning algorithms. The software provides you an interactive user interface with rich graphic features. It supports Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x.