Causes of DBX File Corruption and Precautions to avoid it : DBX Repair Tool Blog

MS Outlook and Outlook Express both are email clients which are the creation of Microsoft and thus based on same basic functionality. Both of the application can store data of the user mailbox on user’s local hard drive but in different manner. The MS Outlook can store all the data in a single Outlook PST file whereas the Outlook Express stores them all in a multiple DBX files. The number of DBX files depends upon the number of folders present in the Outlook Express mailbox.

These DBX files are not immune to corruption. It can easily get corrupted at any point of time by any reason. Some of the common reasons are as follow:

• While compacting files and folders: When you try to compact the large files DBX files and folders may become corrupted or damaged.
• Infection of virus: Virus infection is one of the most common reasons behind the corruption of computer data and files. The virus or bug can get enter into the Outlook Express through emails messages and may cause corruption in whole DBX file. The use of Anti-virus programs can helps you to protect your files from these harmful threats.
• Large sized files: Due to over sizing of DBX files can affect the speed and performance of the Outlook and even lead to corruption when the file crosses its maximum limit. So you need to clean your entire mailbox items and backup at regular interval.
• Sudden cancellation of Outlook Express: If you are running the Outlook Express and the program stops without logging off then this may be harmful for DBX files and their contents.
• Power Failure: Due to sudden power failure the system may affect the data stored in the system hard disk. This can be harmful for your DBF files if still outlook Express is running at that point of time.
• Poor Internet Connection: If the internet connection is poor or weak while sending or receiving mails through Outlook Express then it can lead to corruption and inaccessibly.

Since the corruption of Outlook express DBX file leads to inaccessibility of email and other data stored in the file. Here are some precautionary measures that you can use to prevent yourself from DBX file corruption:

• The MS Outlook Express’s inbox and sent items folders contains a lot of crucial emails thus you need to empty your folders by moving the data to other folders so that it does not cause corruption.
• You always need to maintain the inbox and sent item folders in such a way that the Inbox and sent item folders do not contain more than 2000 email messages.
• Sometimes the antivirus software that is installed on the system may corrupt the DBX files. To prevent the DBX file corruption you need to disable the scanner while using the Outlook Express.
• The automatic compaction process which runs on the background at the time of corruption of Outlook Express DBX file. So you need to disable background compaction at the time using the Email client.
• Perform manual compaction of DBX files on a regular basis.
• Until the compaction process gets finished you should not use the system.
• Avoid exiting abruptly from the Outlook Express this can lead to corruption.
• Do not keep emails that contain large attachments on your Outlook Express mailbox. This will not only help you to save you from DBX file corruption but even helps to maintain your DBX file small.
• Make a regular backup of your Outlook Express database so that corruption can also not harm your crucial stuffs.

By these methods you can avoid corruption of your DBX files. However sometimes you may fail to do the needful thing in such situation of DBX file corruption you need to take help of the DBX File Repair Tool.  This software can handle any level of corruption related Outlook Express DBX files. It efficiently scans a corrupt DBX of any size and recovers all the crucial emails from DBX files.

Steps to Fix DBX File corruption:

Step 1: Select the “Select DBX” button to choose the corrupted DBX file, you can find the DBX file if you do not know the location of the file.

Step 2: Click on the “Start Recovery” button to start the recovery process.

Step 3: In this window you can view the recovered items of progress bar, process log, and email that shows the recovery process.

Step 4: Here you can view all the recovered emails, you can also see the details of the email by clicking on it.

Step 5: Choose the mails and click on the “Save DBX file” icon after it a ‘Save dialog box’ appears from which select ‘Save as EML’ or ‘Save as DBX’ option as per your requirement and click on the “Browse” button to give the destination path where you want to save it and now click on the “Ok” button.

Step 6: A dialog box will appear that displays the successful recovery message, click ‘OK’ to close it.