Steve Cochran

Yeah, I figured this was a problem. I'm gonna work up a little utility that
will do this for people.

Go to Start | Programs | Accessories and right click on Command Prompt and
choose Run As Administrator. Your computer will scare you and then choose
to allow it to run. Then in the black box (with WinMail closed) paste the
following by copying from below and sticking the mouse cursor in the black
box and then right click and choose Paste.

esentutl /p "c:\program files\myusername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Mail\windowsmail.msmessagestore"

Then use the cursor to move the mouse on that line to edit where it says
myusername and change that to your username. Then hit enter and it will
repair the database.

Whether or not it will fix the problem is unclear.

steve

"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E9A372F5-EB9B-40C3-9BB2-3F32E1F94A7F@microsoft.com...
>I have the same problem, but not sure what you mean by "Run the cmd prompt
>as
> Admin and copy and then in there
>>
>> esentutl /p "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
>> Mail\windowsmail.msmessagestore" Fill in the %USERPROFILE% to match your
>> profile (e.g. c:\users\nrc)
>
> Not a techie.
>
> "Steve Cochran" wrote:
>
>> See if this helps:
>>
>> Go to the outbox directory in Windows Explorer. The location will be:
>>
>> %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Local Folders\Outbox
>>
>> and with WinMail closed delete all the files.
>>
>> Then try repairing the database.
>>
>> Run the cmd prompt as Admin and copy and then in there
>>
>> esentutl /p "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
>> Mail\windowsmail.msmessagestore"
>>
>> Fill in the %USERPROFILE% to match your profile (e.g. c:\users\nrc)
>>
>> Then reopen WinMail and see if that fixes it.
>>
>> steve
>>
>>
>> "Gail" <Gail@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:8DD6E6FD-1281-4868-9B8A-0118A42B1D26@microsoft.com...
>> > Message stuck in outbox. Cannot delete, hence cannot send. Help.
>>