Outlook Express 6 Exception error

[rideo]

Upon launching Outlook Express 6 in Windows 98SE I received the following error message. "MSIMN caused an exception c0000006H in module DIRECTDB.DLL at 0167:019f5556"

This message was followed by the normal listing of Register and Stack Dump numbers.

My questions are as follows:

Can I "repair" DIRECTDB.dll somehow. If I delete it, is this a .dll file that Windows will restore?

Secondly, if I remove OE6 from my system and then download it again and install does the removal process delete all my messages stored in the .dbx folders I currently have.

I can copy the .dbx files to another folder except the main inbox.dbx because access was denied to that file.

Any suggestions before I "wing it" and chance losing 15meg of mail would be appreciated. Thanks. Norm

By the way - I discovered that I am missing the file "messages.ods". Is there a way to recover this file?

[degsy]

Try this (but tke precautions & backup)
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q225867

[rideo]

I have read that knowledge base article also. The problem is in order to save current messages you must move the "messages.ods" file into the same folder with your .dbx files. Find files does not find any file named "messages.ods" on my system. Something somewhere must have wiped it out.

Norm

[AnnMarie]

Hi rideo - here is another angle to try Error Message If the Folders.dbx File Is Missing or Damaged

[rideo]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. While that particular article didn't directly solve the problem it gave me the right idea. My inbox.dbx was corrupted. I was unable to make a copy of it because OE6 always thought I was signed on. I went into DOS, made a copy, deleted inbox.dbx, and launched OE6. It recreated my inbox. I was then able to import my old inbox into Outlook(not OE6) and then export to OE. Thanks for the idea. Norm

[AnnMarie]

Good news rideo. Thank you for posting back with the solution