Outlook Express

[Guest]

At one day five folders of my Outlook Express just gone. The .dbx files still
remains at the identities/outlook folder. I used the following programs:

Easy Outlook Express Repair
QE-Mail Recovery
Ontrack Easy Recovery
Quick Recovery for Outlook Express
Nucleus Kernel Outlook Express

None could repair the .dbx files. Anyone has an ideia of how can I do it?

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Rodrigo

You need to post this message in the Outlook Express group. The experts there will will be able to fix this problem.
Here is a link to that newsgroup.

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...px?dg=microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

 

[Gordon]

At one day five folders of my Outlook Express just gone. The .dbx files
still remains at the identities/outlook folder. I used the following
programs:

Easy Outlook Express Repair
QE-Mail Recovery
Ontrack Easy Recovery
Quick Recovery for Outlook Express
Nucleus Kernel Outlook Express

None could repair the .dbx files. Anyone has an ideia of how can I do it?

Try creating a new identity and importing......

 

[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
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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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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, Security, Shell/User)