Folder could not be displayed

[Mantvydas]

Something happened to my two folders: Inbox, and Junk E-mail.

Instead of a message list, I see a page in a preview pane, saying:

Folder could not be displayed

Windows Mail could not open this folder.
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Possible causes are:
Low disk space.
Low memory.

Windows Mail

It's very strange to see that. Folder indices must have gone corrupt, or
something? How to fix those?

 

[Mantvydas]

I tried to mess with the .eml inside Windows folders now, and undestood,
that I completely messed up my Windows Mail folder tree.

I now see triple messages in each Windows Mail folder. But still no messages
in Inbox. 8()

Somehow my Inbox shows, that I have 36 unread messages, but now messages
themselves.

Mantvydas

 

[Mantvydas]

I now wish there was a tool for Windows Mail, which could map each Windows
Mail folder to a folder on the disk drive.

Because it is very strange to see, how Windows Mail takes some of the
folders from the C:\<Message Store path>, and takes other folders from the
C:\<Message Store path>\Imported Folders path, but displays them under
different folder in Windows Mail. Must be because I have moved the folders
inside Windows Mail?

It seems that if I move a folder inside Windows Mail, it doesn't actually
move the Folders in a disk drive -- that later leads to a corruption like
mine.

Steve? Maybe you could help?

Regards,
Mantvydas

 

[Jim Pickering]

Folders that you've imported will normally appear under the Imported Folder
which is nested under Local Folders. If you look carefully under the list
of folders, you may see a small arrow by some pointing to the right (if the
folder is collapsed). To expand, just click on the arrow. You may also
find a Recovered Messages folder if you experience a problem with the
database causing it to recover all of your old messages.

 

[Mantvydas]

Nope. Expanded everything. Nothing inside. It seems that I've completely
lost my inbox.

Is it somehow possible to import a folder full of messages into Windows
Mail?
or better,
Is it somehow possible to tell Windows Mail, that his inbox is actually THAT
folder?

Mantvydas

 

[Jim Pickering]

That's a new one on me. I've heard of problems with deleting messages from
the Inbox or Outbox, but never have heard of the Inbox disappearing. What
do you show in the registry for the location of your Message Store folder:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail
Store Root <===in the right hand pane.

And if you use Windows Explorer to navigate to that location, can you find
the Inbox? It will (or should be) found under the Local Folders subfolder.

 

[Mantvydas]

It's a custom location of mine in it. Let's call it <Store root path> for
the sake of this e-mail

My inbox is <Store root path>\Local Folders\Inbox. I see inside it many
*.eml files together with winmail.fol

So everything should be alright, but it is not: folder could not be
displayed.

Mantvydas

 

[Steve Cochran]

The database is messed up it sounds like. First thing to do is to check
that where you think the store root path is is where WinMail is actually
using. In WinMail check Tools | Options | Advanced | Maintenance and see if
that path is the same as <Store root path> you list below.

If its not, then that explains things. If its the same location, then the
database is messed up. There are a number of things you can try. One is to
reset everything by renaming the current store root directory and then
creating a new empty one with WinMail closed. Then WinMail will
re-establish a new message store and you can drag the eml files from the old
message store into the WinMail folders.

Also, responding to a previous request, you can map the individual folders
by accessing them through Explorer instead of WinMail. See the previous
post I made here relative to multiple windows.

steve