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Recently I did an upgrade of Outlook Express and then migrated to Outlook.
Now I find I have lost some important Folders/Messages. How do I recover them?
Now I find I have lost some important Folders/Messages. How do I recover them?
selwyn said:Recently I did an upgrade of Outlook Express and then migrated to Outlook.
Now I find I have lost some important Folders/Messages. How do I recover
them?
selwyn said::
Recently I did an upgrade of Outlook Express and then migrated to Outlook.
Now I find I have lost some important Folders/Messages. How do I recover
them?
How did you do the "migration" to outlook?
I followed the Office Online instructions "Import your messages or account
from Outlook Express to Outlook"
Gordon said:Unfortunately Office Online, as with so much of MS information, does not
comply with received wisdom. The preferred method for email is to export
FROM Outlook Express TO Outlook. One of the main reasons for this is that
Outlook uses the Modified date of items to perform certain functions,
(archiving amongst them), and using the Import function within Outlook
changes all the Modified dates to the date of import.
Try creating a new Outlook profile, and then in OE, exporting your email to
that. Empty deleted Items Folder and do a "Compact All Folders" first,
before you do the export.
If that works, then use the new Profile and delete the old.
HTH
selwyn said:I am not sure if that will work, because I went back to my OE to check if
the missing Folders/Messages was still there and it wasn't!
Now I am not sure if
1. In the course of the migration it is still lying hidden somewhere
either
in OE or Express, or
2. It has got permanently deleted by mistake.
Also funnily I noticed that there are some Folders in My Documents which
are
not something I saved... They look like dbx files but I am not sure
because I
can't open them.
Gordon said:selwyn said:I am not sure if that will work, because I went back to my OE to check if
the missing Folders/Messages was still there and it wasn't!
Now I am not sure if
1. In the course of the migration it is still lying hidden somewhere
either
in OE or Express, or
2. It has got permanently deleted by mistake.
Also funnily I noticed that there are some Folders in My Documents which
are
not something I saved... They look like dbx files but I am not sure
because I
can't open them.
if you did a compact all folders and you are fully patched in OE then it
would have made a copy of all your folders in the Recycle Bin.
hat are the names of the folders in your Documents folder?
A Folder called Outlook Express Deleted Files, with 6 Files called for example "Shortcut to ------[name of the original Folder].dbx"
selwyn said:I am not sure if that will work, because I went back to my OE to
check if the missing Folders/Messages was still there and it wasn't!
Now I am not sure if
1. In the course of the migration it is still lying hidden somewhere
either in OE or Express, or
2. It has got permanently deleted by mistake.
Also funnily I noticed that there are some Folders in My Documents
which are not something I saved... They look like dbx files but I am
not sure because I can't open them.
selwyn said:1. Is there some way I can recover the deleted Folders/Files... [if
they were deleted, it would have been about a month back].
2. Any way I can migrate these dbx files lying in My Documents to OE.
Brian Tillman said:selwyn said:1. Is there some way I can recover the deleted Folders/Files... [if
they were deleted, it would have been about a month back].
If the DBX files representing the folders were deleted from you disk about a
month ago, you have extremely little chance of ever recovering them.
However, a disk undelete utility might be able to help. Here's a free one:
http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
2. Any way I can migrate these dbx files lying in My Documents to OE.
Start Outlook and click File>Import>Messages. Select Microsoft Outlook
Express 6 and click Next. Select "Import mail from an OE6 store directory"
and click OK. Browse the the folder where your DBX files are (My Documents)
and finish answering the prompts.
Note that this type of question rightfully belongs in an Outlook Express
newsgroup. This group discusses Office Outlook.
selwyn said:PS: Sorry, I meant migrate files to Outlook... not OE!
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