Outlook Express

[Siddharth]

Hi All
Please help me I am not finding my mails in my outlook
Express. I have few folders created I dont see any older
Mail in my outlook but I can see some mails in inbox
folder.

PLease help

 

[t.cruise]

More information is needed. Did you just Upgrade to Windows XP, and then
find that the mail was missing? Was there ever mail in those folders?

 

[Siddharth]

Hi TC
By Mistake I clicked delete 5 days old mails in options
tab of my outlook Express.

Can i recover those deleted mails somehow.

Regards
Siddahrt

-----Original Message-----
More information is needed. Did you just Upgrade to Windows XP, and then
find that the mail was missing? Was there ever mail in those folders?
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T.C.
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Hi All
Please help me I am not finding my mails in my outlook
Express. I have few folders created I dont see any older
Mail in my outlook but I can see some mails in inbox
folder.

PLease help

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.647 / Virus Database: 414 - Release Date: 3/29/2004


.

 

[t.cruise]

Not unless you backed up the *.dbx file which contained that mail. An
analogy is that each *.dbx file, which corresponds to its mail folder (e.g.
Inbox.dbx, Deleted Items.dbx), is almost like a hard drive unto itself. If
you delete mail from the Inbox, the space that the deleted mail used in the
Inbox.dbx file is not reclaimed. Ergo, you could have an Inbox with only
three messages, but that's 200MB. Like a hard drive has to be defragged and
compacted, email *.dbx files must be Compacted to retrieve space for deleted
or moved messages. There's an option on the Tools menu/Options/Maintenance
tab to Compact Messages in the background, but that option seems to eat up
system resources and has been known to cause problems. It should be
disabled, and every so often, you should click the File menu/Compact/Compact
All Folders. This is probably more information than you wanted. Suffice it
to say, that if you Deleted messages from the Deleted Items folder, they are
gone, because you can't recover a portion of a file. And those messages
were a portion of the Deleted Items.dbx file. As I said at the beginning of
this post, if you have backed up the Deleted Items.dbx file while it
contained those messages, you could import them using the File
menu/Import/Messages wizard. But if you didn't backup that file while it
contained those messages, they are gone. Perhaps a professional data
recovery service might be able to recover them for you, but it would depend
on how much you've used your system since deleting the messages, and if the
Compact Messages in the Background option is selected. If the Deleted Items
folder has already been compacted, not even a profession data recovery
service could recover them. Besides you wouldn't want to spend the hundreds
of dollars that a professional data recovery service would charge. In the
future, you might want to back up the store folder that contains the *.dbx
files for your identity, so something like this doesn't happen again, or if
you get a new system and want to restore your old messages.
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T.C.
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Hi TC
By Mistake I clicked delete 5 days old mails in options
tab of my outlook Express.

Can i recover those deleted mails somehow.

Regards
Siddahrt

-----Original Message-----
More information is needed. Did you just Upgrade to Windows XP, and then
find that the mail was missing? Was there ever mail in those folders?
--

T.C.
t__cruise@[NoSpam]hotmail.com
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Hi All
Please help me I am not finding my mails in my outlook
Express. I have few folders created I dont see any older
Mail in my outlook but I can see some mails in inbox
folder.

PLease help

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.647 / Virus Database: 414 - Release Date: 3/29/2004


.

 

[Bruce]

Hi All
Please help me I am not finding my mails in my outlook
Express. I have few folders created I dont see any older
Mail in my outlook but I can see some mails in inbox
folder.

PLease help

If anything can get your mail back it's this:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tools/#dbxtract

Bruce