Will system restore bring back email files?

[goldtech]

Hi,

Two questions:

I lost some important email (I think outlook .bmx) files. Would (with
System Restore) going back to a restore point bring those files back?

The trouble happened during a time when a dialog window kept coming up
asking to compact email - now the files are gone w/out a trace... is
there a way to disable that dialog from ever coming up again? Using XP
sp2.

Thanks,
Lee G.

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Lee

System Restore will not do that.. repost in the
public.inetexplorer.ie6.oultlookexpress, and outlook newsgroups.. e-mail
recovery is a little specialized..

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi,

Two questions:

I lost some important email (I think outlook .bmx) files. Would (with
System Restore) going back to a restore point bring those files back?

Actually, Outlook stores emails in its *.pst file. And no, System
Restore can do nothing to recover lost portions of a data file.

The trouble happened during a time when a dialog window kept coming up
asking to compact email - now the files are gone w/out a trace... is
there a way to disable that dialog from ever coming up again?

The dialog box didn't cause the problem; it was warning you that you
were leaving yourself vulnerable to data loss. Either develop the habit
of performing regular maintenance on your Outlook data files to keep
them from growing too large and fragmented, or resign yourself to
occasionally losing important information.

Using XP
sp2.

Largely irrelevant to an Outlook issue.


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[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Actually, Outlook stores emails in its *.pst file. And no, System
Restore can do nothing to recover lost portions of a data file.




The dialog box didn't cause the problem; it was warning you that you
were leaving yourself vulnerable to data loss. Either develop the
habit of performing regular maintenance on your Outlook data files to
keep them from growing too large and fragmented, or resign yourself to
occasionally losing important information.



Largely irrelevant to an Outlook issue.

I may be missing something, but how did you know he was using Outlook?

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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

Actually, Outlook stores emails in its *.pst file.

Yes....but a) I suspect..bmx = .dbx, which means OE, not Outlook...b) OE
will prompt you to compact, and Outlook won't.....

OE newsgroups here:

microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x


A good website for information on OE is:
http://www.insideoe.com/





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[All Things Mopar]

On this date, Bruce Chambers extended this wisdom for the
consideration of other readers...

Actually, Outlook stores emails in its *.pst file.
And no, System
Restore can do nothing to recover lost portions of a data
file.

why wouldn't restoring to a date prior to the loss of data
/not/ bring it back, so long as that drive's data was being
monitored by the system restore function?

 

[PA Bear]

No.

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

Recovering your data:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
~~~~~~~~~~
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://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm.

If WinXP SP2, don't try to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown while
Automatic Compacting is taking place.

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

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