OE Email Files

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The contents of a number of my email folders in OE are missing. From what I
have read I believe I must have interrupted a compaction. Is there any way
these files can be recovered?
 
Go to START then, SEARCH........ In field enter *.dbx files. This should
access all your "dbx" files on the HD. Hope this works for
you.............Rudvic
 
Thanks. Had already done that and the .dbx files are all still there but
these seem to be the OE folders. What is missing are the emails that were in
the folders.

GM
 
Graham said:
Thanks. Had already done that and the .dbx files are all still there but
these seem to be the OE folders. What is missing are the emails that were in
the folders.

GM
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Yes, they look like folders, but the .dbx files are really the folders
with all email contents. You can't read, or manipulate these .dbx
files, but there are programs that will read them.
 
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
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DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/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.

- WinXP SP2 only: If your machine is fully up-to-date at Windows Update,
installing the following patch (KB918766) will help to avoid such data loss
in the future:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=86b68a78-f325-4a95-98c2-98af2256ccc3

This patch will be included in the next Cumulative Update for Outlook
Express/WinXP SP2.

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