How to Solve DBX Import Issues?

Outlook Express is a popularly used email client that come included in Internet Explorer versions 4.0 to 6.0. The files created with OE are stored with .dbx file extension on hard drive. These file can become practically inaccessible and unable to perform typical operations when get corrupt. However, in OE, you can observe the initial symptoms of .dbx file corruption easily as the applications start behaving sluggishly. The files thus corrupted should be renamed, deleted, repaired or restored from backup. The only option available for repairing them is to use DBX Repair software.

For example, consider you transfer all your .dbx files from original location to a different location. After this, you try to import them to Outlook Express installed on a different system. But the operation fails. You can import only few email folders and rest of them cannot be imported.

Cause

Some possible causes for this behavior are as below:

1-When you transfer the files, you should ensure that they are not write protected. The files fail to get imported with 'Read-Only' attribute.
2-One or more .dbx files have got corrupted while transfer.

Solution

To solve the given issue, you are suggested to follow these steps:

1-Check if .dbx files are not 'Read-Only'. For this, right-click on each .dbx file, click on Properties and uncheck the corresponding option. Click 'OK' to save the settings
2-You can either delete or repair the damaged .dbx files. If you opt for deleting the damaged file, make sure it doesn't contain any critical email messages. However, for repairing the corrupted DBX files that contain vital information, you should use third-party Recovery solutions.

There are several products available that can repair the damaged OE files. Also known as DBX Repair software, these tools are frequently used utilities for repairing the .dbx file for the top reason being that OE doesn't provide any built-in utility for this purpose. Such tools provide you interactive design plus advanced recovery features. Moreover, these applications are easy to implement with enriched qualities.

Outlook Express Recovery is a powerful utility that uses effective scanning algorithms to repair and restore corrupted .dbx files. It is a secure Outlook Express Recovery utility with impressive set of features. The tool supports comprehensive .dbx file repair for Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x. It is a reliable utility and proves competent in each scenario of OE file corruption.