The ‘Store Folder’ of your
Outlook Express is the storage house of your entire mailbox data
including emails, contacts, newsgroups, etc. However, all these
mailbox folders are not scattered all over the ‘Store Folder’,
instead they are kept in specific DBX files. That means inside your
‘Store Folder’ you have separate DBX files for Inbox, Outbox,
Sent Items, etc folders as Inbox.DBX, Outbox.DBX, and so on.
Therefore, if in case this folder gets corrupt, then the abnormal
behavior in your Outlook Express application is seen and you will
lose access to your mailbox data as well. Such situations generally
result in an error message when you try to extract data from ‘Store
Folder’ or try to open it.