Inbox messages all disappeared

[prewire]

Help~While I was creating a message in Outlook Express the
computer restarted itself and once back up I went back
into Express but when it opened, my Inbox was completely
empty and I had about 20-30 messages left on there for
business purposes! They have to be hiding somewhere in
this computer! Why did this happen and how can I get them
back. No, I did not have them held on the server, which I
have now changed.
Thank you!

 

[Paul King]

Did you create a new profile or log on the machine with a different
username?

Cheers
Paul.

 

[Guest]

No, I hadn't done anything different or new.

-----Original Message-----
Did you create a new profile or log on the machine with a different
username?

Cheers
Paul.




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[Paul King]

Well the actual mail is normally stored in the Application Settings for the
currently logged on user. If you open up explorer and find Document and
Settings > Username > Application Settings you can then navigate to I think
Microsoft > Outlook Express and see the mail.

Otherwise it would appear that this may be deleted from your system
entirely.

Cheers
PK.

 

[Bob I]

You probably should look in C:\Documents and Settings and see if you
ended up with a new profile on the reboot.

 

[Guest]

No new profile and I can not find any .dbx files

-----Original Message-----
You probably should look in C:\Documents and Settings and see if you
ended up with a new profile on the reboot.



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[Guest]

Sounds like you may have restarted into a default profile. Right click on the start button, go to Explore this takes you to your profile, if the one you are in has .000 or 001,at the end then that is most likely the problem
Clean your real profile of temporay internet files and cookies. Most of the time that is where a problem happens. re-log on and see if you get a profile pop up in the beginning. (It would tell you where you have a problem). IF this is the problem then you should go back to your original mailbox and other settings. If this is not it, just ignore everything I just wrote. :
hope this help
Chris

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In addition to the other replies - this is a Windows 2000 group; you will
probably get a faster and more expert answer if you post this to an Outlook
Express news group.

Try posting in one of these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x
microsoft.public.internet.outlookexpress.mac for OE for Macintosh

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups).

If you're accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number.

A good website for information on OE is:
http://www.tomsterdam.com/