Lost All Emails

derrick

Yesterday when closing down the computer I got the window "do you wish Outlook Express to compress files" this has happened before and I asked a similar question re me possibly losing the in box, folders etc, and was told it would not happen, on that occasion I compressed and all was well, however this time I compressed, opened the computer this morning and all my e-mail folders have disappeared, Is there any way I can get them back? as there are a lot of the folder e-mails I need. also in my in box, since last night, I have 79 messages, one from August 2005, a couple from May & June this year,one from August this year and a lot from September and October this year.

I really need the folders back, any one able to help?

Just remembered, when I compressed last night, I then opened up Outlook Express,prior to closing computer, and everything was there, but this morning, nothing!

Chippy_Minton

Search for *.dbx files to see if they are still there. They are hidden files so either tick that option in the advanced search options or show hidden files in Windows Explorer (Tools - Folder Options - View).

Then follow the procedure in third paragraph of http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

derrick

It is only finding 15 files,(I am sure there are more), and 4 of them are "inbox.dbx" totaling 13951 kb, most of the others only have around 80 kb, and all are in folder, c:\documents and settings/user ?

In that third paragraph, under which window would I do , " To work around this, click File| Identities| Add New Identity"

And will it work re the info I have?

Garetha

derrick wrote:

It is only finding 15 files,(I am sure there are more), and 4 of them are "inbox.dbx" totaling 13951 kb, most of the others only have around 80 kb, and all are in folder, c:\documents and settings/user ? ...

To identify which 'Inbox.dbx' to use - check the date of the file

To avoid the loss of emails in the future - get a Google mailbox (PM me for an invite) then set it to forward all mail out of your Google to your current mailbox and archive the Google copy.
Carry on using Outlook Express - but at any time (from any computer) you can log on to GoogleMail and see all your old emails and use the power of a Google search to locate an individual one.
Current capacity of a Google mailbox is 2774 Gb (probably see most of us out!)

Chippy_Minton

derrick wrote:

It is only finding 15 files,(I am sure there are more), and 4 of them are "inbox.dbx" totaling 13951 kb, most of the others only have around 80 kb, and all are in folder, c:\documents and settings/user ?

There should only be one inbox.dbx. The others aren't called inbox (1).dbx, inbox (2).dbx etc. are they? As stated, looked at the date and size of inbox.dbx. A fresh, empty Inbox will have a smaller inbox.dbx file size than one with emails in it.

derrick wrote:

In that third paragraph, under which window would I do , " To work around this, click File| Identities| Add New Identity"

In OE.

derrick wrote:

And will it work re the info I have?

It doesn't look too promising, if there are less folder files than you think there should be, but the method in the link I posted will at least allow you to recover what's there.

derrick

Garetha wrote:

To identify which 'Inbox.dbx' to use - check the date of the file

To avoid the loss of emails in the future - get a Google mailbox (PM me for an invite) then set it to forward all mail out of your Google to your current mailbox and archive the Google copy.
Carry on using Outlook Express - but at any time (from any computer) you can log on to GoogleMail and see all your old emails and use the power of a Google search to locate an individual one.
Current capacity of a Google mailbox is 2774 Gb (probably see most of us out!)

Thanks, but at this moment the future does not concern me, I am on Virgin.net, but use Yahoo as my email account which forwards them to my in box,(I only deleted a lot of the emails from Yahoo last week), I really need the folders back.

Re chippys earlier post, I can see in the search results "folders.dbx" so it looks like I mightbe ok? but if so, how do I get them back to Outlook Express?

albertross_2

Garetha wrote:

To avoid the loss of emails in the future -

Backup..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acronis-True-Image-9/dp/B000CO1FAI/ref=pd_sim_ce_1/202-7941082-3916658?ie=UTF8

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Symantec-Norton-Ghost-V10/dp/B000B3KDGM/ref=pd_sim_ce_2/202-7941082-3916658?ie=UTF8

derrick

the in boxes are dated 16-o6-06 X 2both having 5818 kb, and 16-10-06 with 2315 kb

derrick

albertross wrote:

Backup..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acronis-True-Image-9/dp/B000CO1FAI/ref=pd_sim_ce_1/202-7941082-3916658?ie=UTF8

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Symantec-Norton-Ghost-V10/dp/B000B3KDGM/ref=pd_sim_ce_2/202-7941082-3916658?ie=UTF8

Thanks for that,but they where still there after compression, before I closed down,but not there this morning, and it will not help my immediate problem

Toxteth_OGrady

See here.

:cool:

TOG

derrick

Toxteth_OGrady wrote:

See here.

:cool:

TOG

Thats the one chippy gave me but I am struggling with it.

It says if I do not have the "folders.dbx" to do certain things, but I do have that folder and I cant see where to start