Outlook Express Store Folder

[FZWG]

Appreciate some assistance.

In Outlook Express Tools>Options>Maintenance Tab, there is a Store Folder button. Pressing the Store Folder button goes to an address such as:
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\{9D2E2800-5A11-11D6-8A36-E573C96B8C40}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

At this address, the following files are found:
Deleted Items.dbx
Drafts.dbx
Folders.dbx
Inbox.dbx
Offline.dbx
Outbox.dbx
Pop3uidl.dbx
Sent Items.dbx
Cleanup.log

If one of these .dbx files is deleted, how can it be reinstated?

The reason for the question is the following: a friend has MSN Explorer 7 installed on the PC, and with it, web based email. The web-based email is received in Outlook Express.

In the OE mail tree it has the normal Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, etc., etc. folders, and following these, lower in the tree, is a reference to the web-based email with another set of the same (Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, etc.) folders under it.

The owner of the PC (senior citizen) keeps getting confused with these folders. Instead of going to the Inbox of the web-based account, he keeps going to the Inbox of what would correspond to a POP3 account, which he does not have.


Would like to trim the mail tree down so that it only displays the web based email and its set of folders (.dbx), but would like to know if this action would cause OE to go belly up.

Any thoughts?

Thank you in advance.

[Redo40]

If the web based account is on its own tree you can just click the - sign by the local folders and they will close, therefore showing only the web based folders. I don't know about deleting one of the folders but if you try to rename it OE will just make a new one to take its place, so that's not a option. Maybe someone else will come along with a better solution.

[FZWG]

Thanks for the reply.
Closed the Local Folders tree and will see how that goes.