Missing emails in Outlook Express

Yorky1

I opened Outlook Express 6 (Windows XP SPII) today and all of the messages in the 'Inbox' were missing. (I'd had to forcibly shut down the PC yesterday by depressing the CPU button as the normal shut-down process wasn't responding)

I located the Store Folder and the Inbox.dbx file , then File>Import>Messages>OE6>location of file but it only restored some of the messages with significant numbers missing.

These are important messages and I need to retrieve them. Does anyone know how to do retrieve and restore the missing messages?

Thanks in advance.

AlecEiffel

Are they from a POP3 webmail account? They may be still there if you log on to your webmail so long as you haven't set outlook to delete messages from the server.

Yorky1

Thanks. They're from numerous webmail accounts, some of which no longer exist. I need to retrieve them from wherever they're stored

AlecEiffel

Hmmm sorry its beyond my ideas now.

aerostar

Check view - current view, and see if you have ticked ...hide all read messages - if ticked then click view all messages.