outlook experss folders disappaearing

[Guest]

hi

i am a system administrator in a small company. i have a machine with
windows XP Professional, which is configured with a particular mail id.. the
mails are pretty important,, and there are about 1500 mails in each folder,,
recently i found that the 1500 mails in the inbox is disappeared..when i
tried to see the files in the store location the .dbx files are very much
there,, there is a a new file named INBOX(1) which is operational...

not to finish over there today one folder is missing since today morning
whereas the corresponding .dbx files is still there


kindly help
as i am not able to explain this with any logic....


thanks in advance

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

hi

i am a system administrator in a small company. i have a machine with
windows XP Professional, which is configured with a particular mail id.. the
mails are pretty important,, and there are about 1500 mails in each folder,,
recently i found that the 1500 mails in the inbox is disappeared..when i
tried to see the files in the store location the .dbx files are very much
there,, there is a a new file named INBOX(1) which is operational...

not to finish over there today one folder is missing since today morning
whereas the corresponding .dbx files is still there


kindly help
as i am not able to explain this with any logic....


thanks in advance

Best to repost in an Outlook Expres newsgroup.

 

[Newbie Coder]

If you're a system admin for a company then why are you using Outlook
Express rather than MS Outlook?

Do you have a read only inbox.dbx file?

What is the creation date of the inbox(1).dbx file & its file size? Does it
match up with your loss?

 

[PA Bear]

X-post to OE General newsgroup: microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

Very little about OE is logical, I'm afraid.

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)
and http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 (Notes section under
Resolution)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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 [not available in SP2] and frequently
perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://www.insideoe.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.
--
OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

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

 

[NoConsequence]

hi

i am a system administrator in a small company. i have a machine with
windows XP Professional, which is configured with a particular mail id.. the
mails are pretty important,, and there are about 1500 mails in each folder,,
recently i found that the 1500 mails in the inbox is disappeared..when i
tried to see the files in the store location the .dbx files are very much
there,, there is a a new file named INBOX(1) which is operational...

not to finish over there today one folder is missing since today morning
whereas the corresponding .dbx files is still there


kindly help
as i am not able to explain this with any logic....


thanks in advance

Kindly go to a group with Outlook Express or OE in the title. Kindly
notice this group does NOT have that in it's title.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Kindly go to a group with Outlook Express or OE in the title. Kindly
notice this group does NOT have that in it's title.

Kindly note that two other respondents said the same thing
several hours ago. No need to ram it down the OP's throat.