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| Avoid DBX file corruption |
Outlook Express stores all information in DBX file format. But what if your DBX file got corrupt? You will lose your all data. Most of us are facing such issues with our Outlook Express account. Now a days it’s becomes a serious problem because Microsoft has also stopped providing services for Windows XP. I am sharing few common reasons which lead to DBX file corruption and also provide you solution to save DBX file from corruption.
Common Reasons with Suitable Solution to save DBX file
Size of Outlook Express (DBX) file: Every user has their mail boxes associated with their profile. On daily basis user receive and send no of emails. Sending and receiving make user inbox very heavy and increase the size of DBX file. Large size DBX files are more close to corruption. Once DBX file achieved the level of corruption and user will face heavy data loss.
Solutions to reduce the DBX file size
- Discard all unnecessary emails.
- Keep sent items folder empty
- Always keep your mailbox folders empty
- Never keep more than 2000 emails in your inbox
Antivirus Software: Internet plays a vital role in everyone‘s life. To secure our system from viruses or antivirus we usually install antivirus software on our system. Surely installed anti-virus software works a soldier for your system from viruses but they also affect your mail application installed in your system.
Precaution: To avoid corruption in DBX files always disable your Antivirus first. After disabling antivirus login to your Outlook Express account.
In-Built Utilities: Outlook Express blessed with inbuilt utilities for performing compaction process. To save our time we usually run “Automatic compaction” process. User is not aware that process running in back ground also affects their DBX files. At that time there are more chances of DBX file corruption.
Solutions to reduce the DBX file size
- Perform manual compaction on regular basis.
- Disable their background compaction.
- Wait patiently till Outlook Express compacting process get completed
Improper Shutdown of System:Some time users are so impatient that they don’t wait for command execution. Mostly they shut down their system directly. Here you need to be very attentive while switch off your system. Direct system shut down also affects your DBX files and leads to corruption.
Precaution: Always do proper shut down and wait till time shut down command get run.
Attachments: It is very obvious while using mail services surely user will receive and send attachments along with emails. Sometime attachments are too heavy. These heavy attachments not only slow down the system speed also increase chances of DBX file corruption.
Appropriate Solution to overcome this issue:
- Keep your file attachments in different folders
- Always discard all un-necessary emails from your mail box
Virus Attack: Virus is also a big disaster for DBX file corruption. Some viruses directly affect our DBX files and result in data loss. I know you are getting confused because in above points I said to disable your anti-virus. You can use antivirus software but make sure you are using updated anti –virus software. Run antivirus once in a week.
Precaution: Use anti –virus software and keep an eye on all updates of antivirus software
Backup: Always take back up of your Outlook Express store folder at regular interval. In case if DBX file got corrupt then you have back up and can use back up at time of emergency.
After knowing above mentioned points now you can easily save your Outlook Express data from corruption. But what if your DBX file got corrupt? In that case only option is use of third party tool. In market there are various Outlook Express recovery software are present that perform recovery process. User can use that software. Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Repair is best software to deal with all case of Outlook corruption.
