Resolving Outlook Express Error- “An Outlook Express store file may be damaged”

Are you facing store file corruption error in Microsoft Outlook Express? Are you unable to access emails, calendar items, contacts, and other data from your Outlook Express account? The problem may be due to damaged database files (DBX) of Microsoft Outlook Express. Corruption may occur due to a number of reasons and eventually make all your valuable files inaccessible, causing critical data loss. At this point, you are required to opt for Outlook Express Recovery solutions to get your business-critical files restored.

Under some circumstances, your Microsoft Outlook Express e-mail client may download the e-mails from web server that are already there in Outlook Express Inbox. The application can not see the point where message downloading was stopped. When you try to open such downloaded messages in Outlook Express account, you encounter an error message:

“An Outlook Express store file may be damaged. Please use a utility such as ScanDisk to verify and repair any damaged files Account Info Error Number: 0x800C0155”

This behavior of Microsoft Outlook Express renders all your significant emails, notes, tasks, contacts, calendar items, and other data inaccessible. In order to gain access of your important data, find out the root of this problem and fix it through DBX Recovery solutions.

Cause

As stated in the above error message, the problem is caused by corruption of Outlook Express or DBX file. Corruption may occur due to a number of reasons such as virus infection, operating system malfunction, improper system shutdown, and application crash like situations.

Resolution

As suggested in the warning message by Outlook Express, you can try fixing the problem through ScanDisk tool. It scans the entire hard drive for integrity and consistency. If it finds errors, it tries to fix them.

Although ScanDisk can detect and repair hard drive errors, it can not repair and restore the corrupted DBX files. Even after repairing the damaged hard drive, your Outlook Express data remains inaccessible and you need to opt for DBX Recovery Tools to repair and restore damaged DBX files.

These recovery applications Recover Outlook Express files perfectly, by using powerful and advanced scanning techniques. You need not worry about the integrity of your DBX files as the software have read-only conduct and thus do not alter original data.

Outlook Express Recovery is an easy-to-use and effective solution for all DBX file corruption situations. The software works well with Microsoft Outlook Express 6.x and 5.x. It restores all DBX file objects including emails, tasks, journal, contacts, notes, and more.

Outlook Express Fails to start with 0x800C012E,5 and MSOE.DLL Errors

Outlook Express message store is composed of different *.dbx files, one for each folder that you see in the 'Local Folders' list of main window. The master index of the entire store is Folders.dbx. If this store suffers any sort of corruption, the result is directly reflected when you try to send/receive the e-mails or open Outlook Express. One such symptoms can be errors in MSOE.DLL file. This is a library file that is associated with critical e-mail operations in Outlook Express. Irrespective of the reason, Outlook Express doesn't allow you to restore the lost e-mails due to corruption unless you apply a suitable backup or run a third-party Outlook Express Recovery utility.

The following scenario can help you comprehend such file corruption issues in more detail. Consider you try to open Outlook Express and it cannot start because of the below error message:

“Outlook Express could not be started. The application was unable to open the Outlook Express message store. Your computer may be out of memory or your disk is full. Contact Microsoft support for further assistance. (0x800C012E,5)”

Further, when you click 'OK' to this error message, you get another error that reads as:

“Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be initialized. Outlook Express may not be installed correctly.”

Cause

Errors in MSOE.DLL file generally indicate corruption in OE message store. The same errors can also occur if one or more standard *.dbx files (like Inbox.dbx) are read-only.

Solution

You can troubleshoot the depicted problem as follows:

1) Make sure that the *.dbx file(s) are not read-only. For this, enable the view of hidden files. Next, locate the .dbx file(s) as- click Start | Find or Search | Files or Folders, type '*.dbx' in the named box and click 'Find Now'. Once you find the files, right-click the files one at a time and click its Properties to see that read-only file attribute is unchecked.

2) If the issue persists, you can rename or delete the corrupted *.dbx file(s). Make sure you delete the file only when you have a suitable backup.

3) Repair the corrupted *.dbx file(s) and hence Recover Outlook Express using a third-party utility. The Outlook Express recovery tools can scan and repair corrupted *.dbx files using high-end, safe algorithms.