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OE "Sent" folder, suddenly empty why?
I just turned on my XP opened OE and checked Sent file for one of yesterday's
forwards, and folder is empty. There were many emails in there last night. What happened and how do I recover them, and will it happen again? Running XP sp3 w/OE6 all up to date on updates. Emails were in there yesterday. All other files look normal, even the Deleted folder. Recycle Bin is also empty. -- Terry |
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OE "Sent" folder, suddenly empty why?
"Terry" wrote in message
... I just turned on my XP opened OE and checked Sent file for one of yesterday's forwards, and folder is empty. There were many emails in there last night. What happened and how do I recover them, and will it happen again? Running XP sp3 w/OE6 all up to date on updates. Emails were in there yesterday. All other files look normal, even the Deleted folder. Recycle Bin is also empty. -- Terry [OE General newsgroup added for better coverage] The two most common reasons for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More on that below. Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact Why Mail Disappears: http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone About File Corruption: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx Recovery tools: If you are running XP/SP2, or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files. To restore a bak folder to the message store folder, first find the location of the Message Store. Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer or, copy and paste it into Start | Run. In WinXP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options | View. Close OE and then in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the missing, or empty, folder and drag it to the Desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the Message Store. Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the *exact* same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. Eg: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named Saved. Open the new folder and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue on to the next step. First, check if there is a bak file already in the message store. If there is, and you removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it to dbx. If it isn't already in the message store, open the Recycle bin and right click on the bak file for the folder in question and click Restore. Open the message store back up and change the file extension from .bak to .dbx. Close the message store and open OE. The messages should now be back in the folder. If the messages are successfully restored, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the Desktop. If you do not have bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, then: DBXpress run in Extract From Disk Mode is the best chance to recover messages: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx And see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 A general warning to help avoid this in the futu Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA |
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OE "Sent" folder, suddenly empty why?
The messages are in the Sent Items .dbx folder, according to the size of
it, but since there is no .bak file folder in the Recycle Bin, I can't seem to recover them to their original state so I can transfer them to different folders. Since the cost of the fix for that problem is too much for this wallet, I will have to say I've learned my lesson and need to keep up to date on my file sorting. Since my Vista system is "broke", I have been relying on this XP to get me by until I can find the possible overheating problem on the Vista. Thanks anyway, and I will keep a copy of your instructions for the future. -- Terry "Bruce Hagen" wrote: "Terry" wrote in message ... I just turned on my XP opened OE and checked Sent file for one of yesterday's forwards, and folder is empty. There were many emails in there last night. What happened and how do I recover them, and will it happen again? Running XP sp3 w/OE6 all up to date on updates. Emails were in there yesterday. All other files look normal, even the Deleted folder. Recycle Bin is also empty. -- Terry [OE General newsgroup added for better coverage] The two most common reasons for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More on that below. Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact Why Mail Disappears: http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone About File Corruption: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx Recovery tools: If you are running XP/SP2, or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files. To restore a bak folder to the message store folder, first find the location of the Message Store. Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer or, copy and paste it into Start | Run. In WinXP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options | View. Close OE and then in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the missing, or empty, folder and drag it to the Desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the Message Store. Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the *exact* same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. Eg: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named Saved. Open the new folder and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue on to the next step. First, check if there is a bak file already in the message store. If there is, and you removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it to dbx. If it isn't already in the message store, open the Recycle bin and right click on the bak file for the folder in question and click Restore. Open the message store back up and change the file extension from .bak to .dbx. Close the message store and open OE. The messages should now be back in the folder. If the messages are successfully restored, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the Desktop. If you do not have bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, then: DBXpress run in Extract From Disk Mode is the best chance to recover messages: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx And see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 A general warning to help avoid this in the futu Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA |
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OE "Sent" folder, suddenly empty why?
The size of a dbx file means nothing. Very often they get filled with
zeroes. You can open the file with Notepad and see if there is anything readable in it, but I suspect not. For the future see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#6 OETool coupled with OEQB (both are free) is an easy means to backup frequently and reliably so that you won't lose messages you consider important. But then you also need to copy the backup off the hard drive as that could fail and then you'd lose everything. steve "Terry" wrote in message ... The messages are in the Sent Items .dbx folder, according to the size of it, but since there is no .bak file folder in the Recycle Bin, I can't seem to recover them to their original state so I can transfer them to different folders. Since the cost of the fix for that problem is too much for this wallet, I will have to say I've learned my lesson and need to keep up to date on my file sorting. Since my Vista system is "broke", I have been relying on this XP to get me by until I can find the possible overheating problem on the Vista. Thanks anyway, and I will keep a copy of your instructions for the future. -- Terry "Bruce Hagen" wrote: "Terry" wrote in message ... I just turned on my XP opened OE and checked Sent file for one of yesterday's forwards, and folder is empty. There were many emails in there last night. What happened and how do I recover them, and will it happen again? Running XP sp3 w/OE6 all up to date on updates. Emails were in there yesterday. All other files look normal, even the Deleted folder. Recycle Bin is also empty. -- Terry [OE General newsgroup added for better coverage] The two most common reasons for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More on that below. Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact Why Mail Disappears: http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone About File Corruption: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx Recovery tools: If you are running XP/SP2, or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files. To restore a bak folder to the message store folder, first find the location of the Message Store. Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer or, copy and paste it into Start | Run. In WinXP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options | View. Close OE and then in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the missing, or empty, folder and drag it to the Desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the Message Store. Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the *exact* same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. Eg: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named Saved. Open the new folder and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue on to the next step. First, check if there is a bak file already in the message store. If there is, and you removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it to dbx. If it isn't already in the message store, open the Recycle bin and right click on the bak file for the folder in question and click Restore. Open the message store back up and change the file extension from .bak to .dbx. Close the message store and open OE. The messages should now be back in the folder. If the messages are successfully restored, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the Desktop. If you do not have bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, then: DBXpress run in Extract From Disk Mode is the best chance to recover messages: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx And see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 A general warning to help avoid this in the futu Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA |
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OE "Sent" folder, suddenly empty why?
Thanks Steve. I run an external backup drive, which has saved my bacon many
times, mostly from myself and a propencity to hitting delete when I shouldn't. This time I wasn't prepared, as I am just using this old XP system until I get around to working on the overheating problem on the Vista system. Not a big deal, as these missing emails were from the Sent Items, which had nothing really important in it. -- Terry "Steve Cochran" wrote: The size of a dbx file means nothing. Very often they get filled with zeroes. You can open the file with Notepad and see if there is anything readable in it, but I suspect not. For the future see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#6 OETool coupled with OEQB (both are free) is an easy means to backup frequently and reliably so that you won't lose messages you consider important. But then you also need to copy the backup off the hard drive as that could fail and then you'd lose everything. steve "Terry" wrote in message ... The messages are in the Sent Items .dbx folder, according to the size of it, but since there is no .bak file folder in the Recycle Bin, I can't seem to recover them to their original state so I can transfer them to different folders. Since the cost of the fix for that problem is too much for this wallet, I will have to say I've learned my lesson and need to keep up to date on my file sorting. Since my Vista system is "broke", I have been relying on this XP to get me by until I can find the possible overheating problem on the Vista. Thanks anyway, and I will keep a copy of your instructions for the future. -- Terry "Bruce Hagen" wrote: "Terry" wrote in message ... I just turned on my XP opened OE and checked Sent file for one of yesterday's forwards, and folder is empty. There were many emails in there last night. What happened and how do I recover them, and will it happen again? Running XP sp3 w/OE6 all up to date on updates. Emails were in there yesterday. All other files look normal, even the Deleted folder. Recycle Bin is also empty. -- Terry [OE General newsgroup added for better coverage] The two most common reasons for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More on that below. Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact Why Mail Disappears: http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone About File Corruption: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx Recovery tools: If you are running XP/SP2, or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files. To restore a bak folder to the message store folder, first find the location of the Message Store. Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer or, copy and paste it into Start | Run. In WinXP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options | View. Close OE and then in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the missing, or empty, folder and drag it to the Desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the Message Store. Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the *exact* same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. Eg: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named Saved. Open the new folder and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue on to the next step. First, check if there is a bak file already in the message store. If there is, and you removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it to dbx. If it isn't already in the message store, open the Recycle bin and right click on the bak file for the folder in question and click Restore. Open the message store back up and change the file extension from .bak to .dbx. Close the message store and open OE. The messages should now be back in the folder. If the messages are successfully restored, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the Desktop. If you do not have bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, then: DBXpress run in Extract From Disk Mode is the best chance to recover messages: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx And see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 A general warning to help avoid this in the futu Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA |
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OE "Sent" folder, suddenly empty why?
If you are worried about the cost, then try this freeware utilitiy that will
extract the messages from a dbx file. http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Commun...Extractor.html I have no experience with this application, so cannot give any real comments on it. I just did a Google search for 'freeware outlook express recovery'. There may be others you could try. Might be worth a few minutes of your time Martin "Terry" wrote in message ... Thanks Steve. I run an external backup drive, which has saved my bacon many times, mostly from myself and a propencity to hitting delete when I shouldn't. This time I wasn't prepared, as I am just using this old XP system until I get around to working on the overheating problem on the Vista system. Not a big deal, as these missing emails were from the Sent Items, which had nothing really important in it. -- Terry "Steve Cochran" wrote: The size of a dbx file means nothing. Very often they get filled with zeroes. You can open the file with Notepad and see if there is anything readable in it, but I suspect not. For the future see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#6 OETool coupled with OEQB (both are free) is an easy means to backup frequently and reliably so that you won't lose messages you consider important. But then you also need to copy the backup off the hard drive as that could fail and then you'd lose everything. steve "Terry" wrote in message ... The messages are in the Sent Items .dbx folder, according to the size of it, but since there is no .bak file folder in the Recycle Bin, I can't seem to recover them to their original state so I can transfer them to different folders. Since the cost of the fix for that problem is too much for this wallet, I will have to say I've learned my lesson and need to keep up to date on my file sorting. Since my Vista system is "broke", I have been relying on this XP to get me by until I can find the possible overheating problem on the Vista. Thanks anyway, and I will keep a copy of your instructions for the future. -- Terry "Bruce Hagen" wrote: "Terry" wrote in message ... I just turned on my XP opened OE and checked Sent file for one of yesterday's forwards, and folder is empty. There were many emails in there last night. What happened and how do I recover them, and will it happen again? Running XP sp3 w/OE6 all up to date on updates. Emails were in there yesterday. All other files look normal, even the Deleted folder. Recycle Bin is also empty. -- Terry [OE General newsgroup added for better coverage] The two most common reasons for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More on that below. Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact Why Mail Disappears: http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone About File Corruption: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx Recovery tools: If you are running XP/SP2, or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files. To restore a bak folder to the message store folder, first find the location of the Message Store. Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer or, copy and paste it into Start | Run. In WinXP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options | View. Close OE and then in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the missing, or empty, folder and drag it to the Desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the Message Store. Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the *exact* same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. Eg: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named Saved. Open the new folder and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue on to the next step. First, check if there is a bak file already in the message store. If there is, and you removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it to dbx. If it isn't already in the message store, open the Recycle bin and right click on the bak file for the folder in question and click Restore. Open the message store back up and change the file extension from .bak to .dbx. Close the message store and open OE. The messages should now be back in the folder. If the messages are successfully restored, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the Desktop. If you do not have bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, then: DBXpress run in Extract From Disk Mode is the best chance to recover messages: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx And see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 A general warning to help avoid this in the futu Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA |
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Thanks Martin. I will keep that site in mind if I run up on this problem
again. I hope to be back to the Vista system by this weekend. -- Terry "Martin C" wrote: If you are worried about the cost, then try this freeware utilitiy that will extract the messages from a dbx file. http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Commun...Extractor.html I have no experience with this application, so cannot give any real comments on it. I just did a Google search for 'freeware outlook express recovery'. There may be others you could try. Might be worth a few minutes of your time Martin "Terry" wrote in message ... Thanks Steve. I run an external backup drive, which has saved my bacon many times, mostly from myself and a propencity to hitting delete when I shouldn't. This time I wasn't prepared, as I am just using this old XP system until I get around to working on the overheating problem on the Vista system. Not a big deal, as these missing emails were from the Sent Items, which had nothing really important in it. -- Terry "Steve Cochran" wrote: The size of a dbx file means nothing. Very often they get filled with zeroes. You can open the file with Notepad and see if there is anything readable in it, but I suspect not. For the future see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#6 OETool coupled with OEQB (both are free) is an easy means to backup frequently and reliably so that you won't lose messages you consider important. But then you also need to copy the backup off the hard drive as that could fail and then you'd lose everything. steve "Terry" wrote in message ... The messages are in the Sent Items .dbx folder, according to the size of it, but since there is no .bak file folder in the Recycle Bin, I can't seem to recover them to their original state so I can transfer them to different folders. Since the cost of the fix for that problem is too much for this wallet, I will have to say I've learned my lesson and need to keep up to date on my file sorting. Since my Vista system is "broke", I have been relying on this XP to get me by until I can find the possible overheating problem on the Vista. Thanks anyway, and I will keep a copy of your instructions for the future. -- Terry "Bruce Hagen" wrote: "Terry" wrote in message ... I just turned on my XP opened OE and checked Sent file for one of yesterday's forwards, and folder is empty. There were many emails in there last night. What happened and how do I recover them, and will it happen again? Running XP sp3 w/OE6 all up to date on updates. Emails were in there yesterday. All other files look normal, even the Deleted folder. Recycle Bin is also empty. -- Terry [OE General newsgroup added for better coverage] The two most common reasons for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More on that below. Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?: http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact Why Mail Disappears: http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone About File Corruption: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx Recovery tools: If you are running XP/SP2, or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files. To restore a bak folder to the message store folder, first find the location of the Message Store. Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer or, copy and paste it into Start | Run. In WinXP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options | View. Close OE and then in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the missing, or empty, folder and drag it to the Desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the Message Store. Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the *exact* same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. Eg: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named Saved. Open the new folder and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue on to the next step. First, check if there is a bak file already in the message store. If there is, and you removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it to dbx. If it isn't already in the message store, open the Recycle bin and right click on the bak file for the folder in question and click Restore. Open the message store back up and change the file extension from .bak to .dbx. Close the message store and open OE. The messages should now be back in the folder. If the messages are successfully restored, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the Desktop. If you do not have bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin, then: DBXpress run in Extract From Disk Mode is the best chance to recover messages: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx And see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 A general warning to help avoid this in the futu Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA |
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Terry wrote:
I just turned on my XP opened OE and checked Sent file for one of yesterday's forwards, and folder is empty. There were many emails in there last night. What happened and how do I recover them, and will it happen again? Running XP sp3 w/OE6 all up to date on updates. Emails were in there yesterday. All other files look normal, even the Deleted folder. Recycle Bin is also empty. What view are you using on that folder? How big is the "Sent Items.dbx" file? |
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