Outlook runaway dbt file

[OldBored]

I have a 2000 Advance Server with Outlook Express 6 (ver 6.00.2800.1933).
One of the main uses for this server is when people need to RDP into the
office. It is not a Terminal Server except for the 2 built in licenses. I
have one user that when he signs on, everything is ok (been doing it for 3+
years) but starting yesterday, when he starts Outlook, a process starts that
fills the C: drive with a file (C:/Documents and Settings/Bob/local
settings/applications data/identies/XXXXX/microsoft/outlook
express/inbox(1).dbt). Mailserver is sendmail, and I have deleted the entire
contents of his mail box on the server, and it had no effect.

Interesting things
1) even after the disk fills, or the user logs off, the disk light stays on
until the system is booted.
2) Only happens to this user
3) I have use 3 diff malware scanners (started with onecare), all are clean

Any ideas of what is happening? I did just patch the server (Patch Tuesday).

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Try posting this in an Outlook Express news group - this is not one of them.
Outlook is a part of Microsoft Office and is what this group supports.
Outlook Express is a part of Internet Explorer and has its own news groups.

You can also find some good Outlook Express information here:

http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, OldBored asked:

| I have a 2000 Advance Server with Outlook Express 6 (ver
| 6.00.2800.1933).
| One of the main uses for this server is when people need to RDP into
| the office. It is not a Terminal Server except for the 2 built in
| licenses. I have one user that when he signs on, everything is ok
| (been doing it for 3+ years) but starting yesterday, when he starts
| Outlook, a process starts that fills the C: drive with a file
| (C:/Documents and Settings/Bob/local settings/applications
| data/identies/XXXXX/microsoft/outlook express/inbox(1).dbt).
| Mailserver is sendmail, and I have deleted the entire contents of his
| mail box on the server, and it had no effect.
|
| Interesting things
| 1) even after the disk fills, or the user logs off, the disk light
| stays on until the system is booted.
| 2) Only happens to this user
| 3) I have use 3 diff malware scanners (started with onecare), all are
| clean
|
| Any ideas of what is happening? I did just patch the server (Patch
| Tuesday).

 

[OldBored]

Well after two days of effort, it is fixed, don't know how or why. All I did
was let the dbt fill up the disk, hard boot it, (did not erase the dbt file),
logged on as the user and it worked right. Now I had done this before, don't
know what was diff this time except that I asked for help. The dbt file even
cleaned up after itself (I did not erase it).

Now as to why I posted here vs. elsewhere had to do with results from
Microsoft's search. This was all it found. Being a Microsoft partner, I
rarley use the forums, course I rarley use Microsoft's support either, least
not in 10 to 15 years, and that is not praise.....

 

[VanguardLH]

Now as to why I posted here vs. elsewhere had to do with results from
Microsoft's search. This was all it found. Being a Microsoft partner, I
rarley use the forums, course I rarley use Microsoft's support either, least
not in 10 to 15 years, and that is not praise.....

Rather than use Microsoft's webnews-for-dummies interface that pretends
Microsoft has forums but really has usurped Usenet, instead use a real
newsreader and connect to an NNTP server to do newsgroups. For
Microsoft groups, you can use Microsoft's free NNTP server at
msnews.microsoft.com (although you might want to use your own newsgroups
provider to eliminate Microsoft's unreliable and poor spam/troll
filtering, like them scraping posts with alt.<somegroup> somewhere in
the body of your post). With a real newsreader, you could simply enter
in a string to find which newsgroups match, like looking into the list
of newsgroups (perhaps after resetting the list to ensure you get all of
them) and entering "express", "outlookexpress", or "outlook" (and check
for those with "express" in their name) to find the OE newsgroups.

I have rarely used the webnews-for-dummies interface. As I recall, OE
is buried under since, after all, OE was bundled with IE up until but
not included version 7 of IE (that is, OE got decoupled from IE as of
version 7 of IE).