subject: Dealing With Outlook Express Error 0800c012f [print this page] Outlook Express is most common and most suitable email client ever used by individual. As it comes as free application with Microsoft Windows, everyone enjoys working with it. While using OE, you must have seen that sometimes Outlook Express itself stats compacting email folders. Actually, compaction of Outlook Express folders is a process carried out by Outlook Express to manage the disk space allocated to all the folders, and hence indirectly performs DBX file repair. The process of compaction was performed by Outlook Express, before Window XP SP2 was launched.
No doubt there are numerous advantages associated with compaction of Outlook Express folders, but it can also result in corruption of DBX files. All email folders might get emptied. Even Deleted Items folder is emptied and you cant get those emails back. But thats not the end; user can recover deleted emails using proficient Outlook Express email recovery software.
Consider a real-time scenario where you encounter the below error message while trying to access the Inbox.dbx file. This error message appears every time you try to open the file and does not allow you to access the e-mails saved in Inbox.dbx file:
An unknown error has occurred. Account: Comcast Online,
User encounters an error message while trying to access the data saved in the DBX file, if compaction of OE brings nasty results. To access the data saved in DBX file and to overcome the error message, the Outlook Express user can restore the file from an updated backup. Most of the times, backup is not available and you are bound to take help of third party software to recover deleted emails of Outlook Express .dbx files.
Reasons for this error
The above error message appears when the Inbox.dbx file is damaged or corrupted. Other main reasons for this file damage are compaction, virus infection, anti-virus scanning, header corruption, or media corruption and more.
Resolution
To resolve the above error message, to recover deleted emails and to access the emails saved in the Inbox.dbx file, you are supposed to follow the given below steps:
Rename the logically damaged Inbox.dbx file and try to access the file in Outlook Express.
Delete the Inbox.dbx file and restore the file from an adequate backup.
In case of absence of an updated backup, use Outlook Express recovery software to recover deleted emails.
Outlook Express recovery software is developed specifically to deal with dbx file corruptions. Software is capable of recovering accidentally deleted emails, images, message properties, attachments, Unicode characters, etc. and provide with immediate fruitful results. You get back .DBX file with all its content and items intact.
