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OE .dbx files
Name: Hoss78 Date: September 17, 2008 at 15:47:52 Pacific OS: XP SP2 CPU/Ram: 1.6/1536 Product: Custom
Comment:
Haven't used OE for a long long time, but i bumped to these .dbx files. When i stopped using OE, i removed all the messages from it. Just downloaded OE Viewer which can read these .dbx files. They all seem to be empty. Although 'Deleted.dbx' is about 4,7Mb big. So is it normal that empty 'Deleted.dbx' is that big? Those other folders are much smaller. Most of them are 58,7Kb.
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: September 17, 2008 at 16:23:43 Pacific
Reply:
Not sure what you mean by "but i bumped to these .dbx files". If you're opening dbx files, are you sure you're opening the ones located in the profile that used OE?
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Response Number 2
Name: guapo Date: September 17, 2008 at 17:44:32 Pacific
Reply:
A 4.7MB .dbx file is not empty. I never used that viewer, I always opened them in Notepad or Wordpad when they were that big.
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Response Number 3
Name: Hoss78 Date: September 18, 2008 at 03:07:20 Pacific
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Well i opened it with Wordpad and it sure was not empty. There were some messages. I have already imported all those messages in to Thunderbird. Those other folders were empty.
So apparently OE Viewer is not a good program for .dbx files.
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Response Number 4
Name: guapo Date: September 18, 2008 at 12:10:35 Pacific
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Name: Hoss78
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