Outlook Express

[Tadpole]

OE will not open and a message appears: 'Outlook Express
could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be
loaded'. If OE is uninstalled, then re-installed how can
I copy the files so as to avoid losing all my data? Or is
there some other solution to this problem?

[A1ex P1antema]

Post by Tadpole
OE will not open and a message appears: 'Outlook Express
could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be
loaded'. If OE is uninstalled, then re-installed how can
I copy the files so as to avoid losing all my data? Or is
there some other solution to this problem?

If you didn't change the folder location all data should reappear after installing.
But it's wise to back up the mail folder anyway.
Its location depends on the operation system version and OE version.

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

Post by Tadpole
OE will not open and a message appears: 'Outlook Express
could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be
loaded'. If OE is uninstalled, then re-installed how can
I copy the files so as to avoid losing all my data? Or is
there some other solution to this problem?

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/directdb.htm

Errors in DIRECTDB.DLL or MSOE.DLL generally indicate corruption in the
message store.
Start by moving Folders.dbx to an empty Windows folder (with OE closed).
Note: the DBX files are hidden in Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3. You will lose
your folder hierarchy and the lists of newsgroups on the news servers, but
it might get you into OE.

If that doesn't do it then move all of the DBX files to the same folder as
Folders.dbx (again with OE closed). You should now get into OE. Try
importing the messages from
the folder you moved the DBX files to. If you can't, you can use this tool
to extract the messages:

DBXtract ($5):
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/

Note: It can take a long time (days with really large folders).

The messages can then be dragged from the Windows folder back into a folder
in an open instance of OE.