How to Solve Exception C0000006h in Outlook Express when Opening a Folder?

When a Outlook Express DBX file corrupts, you might usually experience that the applications starts behaving sluggishly. These symptoms are more noticeable when you start Outlook Express, switch between the folders, mark an email message or open a folder. Such performance concerns can be resolved by simply compacting the folders as this removes minor corruption, if any. However, if a specific folder is suffering from extensive corruption, you might observe several difficulties and error messages when trying to open it. To restore data of such a damaged folder, you need to use your backup or scan it using a powerful DBX Repair software to repair it.

For an instance, consider that you start Outlook Express and tries to open a folder. You fail to do so and the application crashes with the following error message:

“Msimn caused an exception C0000006h in module Directdb.dll. The message could not be sent. There is not enough Disk space”

Further, when you restart the application, it starts as expected but you receive the same error message, as above when trying to open it.

Cause

The Outlook Express folder you are trying to open is corrupted or damaged.

Solution

To resolve the issue discussed above, you should try following suggestions:

1) Try to compact all of your Outlook Express folders. To do so, click 'Work Offline' in 'File' menu and click 'Outlook Express' in the Folder list. Next, click the Folder list. Click 'File' menu, point to 'Folder' and click 'Compact All Folders'.

2) Delete or rename the damaged DBX file that is associated with the folder. If this is the main folder, like Inbox.dbx or SentItems.dbx, Outlook Express will recreate it when you will restart the application.

3) Restore data if you have a valid backup available.

4) Alternatively, you can use a third-party DBX Repair Tool to repair and restore the damaged DBX files. A DBX Repair utility is built specifically to repair a damaged DBX file without harming any contents. Such tools provide graphically rich user interface and are embedded with high-scanning algorithms to effectively repair the OE files.

Outlook Express Recovery is a comprehensive mail recovery tool designed to repair corrupted DBX files created with Outlook Express 5 and 6. It is an advanced and read-only DBX Repair Tool incorporated with effective scanning algorithms. It can also repair *.eml messages that can be directly opened and viewed in Outlook Express.