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Lost email folder
Then either you'd not been manually compacting all folders on a manual basis
or an application running at Startup deletes the contents of the Recycle Bin at boot. If such were not the case, you'd find a back-up of the DBX folder in Recycle Bin which you could have used to restore your messages in a few seconds. General OE Caveats: - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place. - Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause corruption (i.e., loss of messages) and provides no additional protection: Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 Teriel9 wrote: Unfortunately Recycle bin was completely empty and I had not emptied it specifically. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... Is "Teriel Consultants.bak" found in Recycle Bin? Are any BAK files found in Recycle Bin? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 Teriel9 wrote: Hi Bruce, Many thanks for your help but the "Teriel Consultants.dbx" file is not in that position. I did a search for *.dbx and found 159 files but this was not among them. It seems I have lost the info First, make sure it isn't in Deleted Items. If not, see if the dbx file for the folder still exists in the message store and manually restore it as follows. 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, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) 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. In the message store in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the missing folder and drag it to the Desktop at the top of the folder tree. Open OE and create a folder with the *exact* same name as the one on your Desktop. Open the new folder and then close OE. (You must do this). Go back to Windows Explorer and Click Desktop and drag the file from the Desktop to the OE store folder that you clicked on to reveal the .dbx files. Prompt - "Do you want to overwrite......."? Click Yes. *Note* If you have moved the Outlook Express store folder from it's default location on drive C to another drive, drag the dbx file to a location on that drive and not the Desktop. -- Hi Bruce, Many thanks for your prompt response, I have a number of folders which messages are directed to by message rules, for some reason one of them, the folder and all the emails have gone. I looked in the Recycle bin but there was nothing there. Is there any where I can look where the folder info is stored ... Please define what you call the "main" e-mail folder, and is it gone, or just the messages? -- I have just opened my Outlook Express and notice that my main email folder has disappeared, how can I get it back please. Thanks Teriel9 |
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PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: Then either you'd not been manually compacting all folders on a [REGULAR] basis or an application running at Startup deletes the contents of the Recycle Bin at boot. If such were not the case, you'd find a back-up of the DBX folder in Recycle Bin which you could have used to restore your messages in a few seconds... |
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"Teriel9" wrote in message ... I have just opened my Outlook Express and notice that my main email folder has disappeared, how can I get it back please. Thanks Teriel9 |
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