Lost incoming emails

[Guest]

Hi,

I was attempting to check my new incoming emails through Outlook Express (I
have Windows 98, 2nd Edition). My computer seemed to be having a problem
accessing and opening the emails, and the next thing I knew the screen was
showing "the system is busy" message. So I pressed "Control-Alt-Delete" as it
indicated to re-start the computer, and then once it restarted tried to
re-open my Outlook Express. It took a long time, but when it finally opened
all my incoming emails from March 9, 2005 onward were gone. Went into webmail
to check for new emails and found that to be empty as well.

Can anyone help me out here? How could this have happened? Is there any way
to find all those emails from the past two years?Am flipping out---not only
for vanished old emails that I still need but the new ones I didn't even get
a chance to open or even look at to see who was emailing me.

THANKS!

 

[PvdG42]

Hi,

I was attempting to check my new incoming emails through Outlook Express
(I
have Windows 98, 2nd Edition). My computer seemed to be having a problem
accessing and opening the emails, and the next thing I knew the screen was
showing "the system is busy" message. So I pressed "Control-Alt-Delete" as
it
indicated to re-start the computer, and then once it restarted tried to
re-open my Outlook Express. It took a long time, but when it finally
opened
all my incoming emails from March 9, 2005 onward were gone. Went into
webmail
to check for new emails and found that to be empty as well.

Can anyone help me out here? How could this have happened? Is there any
way
to find all those emails from the past two years?Am flipping out---not
only
for vanished old emails that I still need but the new ones I didn't even
get
a chance to open or even look at to see who was emailing me.

THANKS!

Step 1 is to get your question into the appropriate group. You've posted in
a .NET programming group.
I realize it's not easy to select the correct group through the web
interface, so I'm going to cross post this response to the group you want,
which is:

microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

 

[PA Bear]

Step 1 is to get your question into the appropriate group. You've posted
in
a .NET programming group.
I realize it's not easy to select the correct group through the web
interface, so I'm going to cross post this response to the group you want,
which is:

microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

[Replied tailored to Win98]

Why it happens:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and #4).
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DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
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Avoiding Such Corruption in Future:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting and frequently perform a manual compact of
all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.