Email archiving is an ideal approach to keep the message store files within reasonable size and prevent Outlook Express from slowing down. The old emails stored in this manner are easily accessible and also don’t interfere with the normal functioning of default mail folders. However, you should also keep on deleting the unwanted email messages. The email archiving can be done both manually or automatically. But the archive files can corrupt for same reasons which affect the default .dbx files of Outlook Express. This leads to data inaccessibility in most of the instances. Thus, you should always backup your important emails to avoid any post-consequences of .dbx file corruption. If you lose data when no suitable backup is available, you are suggested to use a powerful DBX Repair tool.

To illustrate the scenario of archive file corruption, suppose you create an archive of your Outlook Express emails. When you open this archive file, stored with .dbx file extension, you find some or all of your emails missing.

Cause

Some possible reasons causing the above behavior to occur are:

Your computer is infected from virus.
The auto archive feature is enabled in Outlook Express that moved the old emails in its own default folder.
The archived mail folder is corrupt.

Solution

The following suggestions can help you to recover from the described problem:

Start your computer in safe mode and scan with an antivirus software. Rename the outcmd.dat file and restart Outlook Express
Check if the auto archive option is enabled. For this, click Tools | Menu |Options | Other | AutoArchive and click to view its Settings. You can either disable the option or delay the time period to archive
Restore from backup if the mail folder is corrupt. If you don’t have any backup that could restore the required emails, you need to repair the corrupted file using an Outlook Express Repair product.

DBX Repair solutions are infalible products with high-end scanning technology to recover data from corrupted .dbx files. The safe and comprehensive file repair applications allow you to restore emails at a safe location.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is an advanced repair utility that repairs and restores corrupted .dbx files created with Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x. The non-destructive Outlook Express Repair tool restores all email messages with original formatting and view. The tool is competent to extract .eml messages that can be directly viewed with Outlook Express.