lost emails

[Guest]

please can anyone advise? I was compacting my emails in outlook express
yesterday when my pc crashed.When i re booted i found to my horror that i had
lost 6 months of emails from my inbox,and that many others were left
unreadable,saying the message had not been downloaded. I am not able to view
any of those emails and unable to locate where any of the deleted mails have
gone, so i have lost some very important work. Please can anyone advise what
on earth i can do to retrieve the lost mails? thanks in advance !

 

[Alias]

please can anyone advise? I was compacting my emails in outlook express
yesterday when my pc crashed.When i re booted i found to my horror that i
had
lost 6 months of emails from my inbox,and that many others were left
unreadable,saying the message had not been downloaded. I am not able to
view
any of those emails and unable to locate where any of the deleted mails
have
gone, so i have lost some very important work. Please can anyone advise
what
on earth i can do to retrieve the lost mails? thanks in advance !

Probably gone. Now you know that back up is a computer user's best friend.
Oh, and never, ever, store messages in the default folders such as Inbox,
Sent Items, Deleted Items, etc. OE doesn't like that. Create new folders
under Local Folders for archiving and make sure they never exceed 100MB.

You can try using http://www.oehelp.com/dbxtract/default.aspx to recover
your emails but you've probably lost them.

A good back up program for the future:
http://www.oehelp.com/oebackup/default.aspx

Alias

 

[R. McCarty]

OE Storage folders (.Dbx) are subject to corruption. There are
some tools on the web that "Might" allow you to access/recover
messages.

Not an uncommon event. Personally, I run a script to backup my
OE mail stores almost daily. Just as an example, yesterday one of
my extra folders suddenly lost all it's content. 27 messages just
vanished. I pulled in the last backup and everything was OK.

Sometimes OE will just create a new folder, such as Inbox (1).dbx
instead of the normal Inbox.dbx. Many of these Quirks/Anomalies
I just can't explain.

Here's a good URL for help with OE/Storage issue(s):
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/
Click the Problems category at the top of the page.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Always set up folders in OE store your mail. Never store all your mail in your Inbox or Sent Folders.

OE Folder store can become corrupted very easily and for a number of reasons. Follow the advice of Alias as pr DBXtract

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

please can anyone advise? I was compacting my emails in outlook
express yesterday when my pc crashed.When i re booted i found to my
horror that i had lost 6 months of emails from my inbox,and that
many others were left unreadable,saying the message had not been
downloaded. I am not able to view any of those emails and unable to
locate where any of the deleted mails have gone, so i have lost some
very important work. Please can anyone advise what on earth i can do
to retrieve the lost mails? thanks in advance !

DBXpress (wwww.oehelp.com) can recover messages off the hard drive itself if
they have not been overwritten subsequently to the DBX files being messed
up.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
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Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/

 

[PA Bear]

Why it happens:

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

Recovering data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DBXtract
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXtend (additional functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtend/Default.aspx

DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

OEX (OE Enhancement Program)
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
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Avoid 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 [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual
compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm.

- WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
automatically compacting your message store.

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

--
OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
OE General newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP

 

[Guest]

Which is more appropriate for Windows 98, 2nd edition--DBxtract or DBxpress?

Thanks,

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Which is more appropriate for Windows 98, 2nd edition--DBxtract or
DBxpress?

DBXtract can recover messages from the old DBX files if you have them.
I don't believe DBXpress can recover from the hard drive in Win98.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Which is more appropriate for Windows 98, 2nd edition--DBxtract or
DBxpress?

Thanks,

I'd suggest starting with copies of the DBX files, and working on those
rather than the originals. This will help prevent compounding the damage.

HTH
-pk