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"Larry" wrote in message
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| I haven't been following this thread but this confuses me. How did you
| determine the size of it when it was 400KB? And when it was 1.24 MB?
|
| By seeing the size of the Inbox.dbx file in Windows Explorer.
|
| 2. Get any of the many programs to extract messages from .dbx files
and
| run
| it
|
| I did try OE Extract and it doesn't do anything and provides no
| instructions, so I guess one of the nonfreeware apps is next.
|
|
| "dadiOH" wrote in message
| ...
| Larry wrote:
| Strange things going on (see below), but I think the problem may be
| solvable.
|
| 1. The Inbox, prior to the problem, would have been around 80 or 90
| MB. As I said, my procedure is to let it build up for a few weeks
| and then move a lot of it into a custom folder. But after the
| problem occurred, the Inbox was 130 KB. After I received e-mails
| since this morning, it went up to about 400 KB.
|
| 2. But here's the strange thing: just now I looked again, and the
| only Inbox.dbx in the OE folder has 1.24 MB!!! So somehow it's
| returned.
|
| I haven't been following this thread but this confuses me. How did you
| determine the size of it when it was 400KB? And when it was 1.24 MB?
| ________________
|
| 3. Yet the Inbox in the OE application is still just the e-mails
| received since this morning.
|
| Because it is screwed up. That is, whatever methodology used to
determine
| messages start/end and/or count is wrong. Like a file that has its EOF
in
| the wrong place/
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|
| This is what I'd do...
|
| 1. Save a copy of Inbox.dbx somewhere
|
| 2. Get any of the many programs to extract messages from .dbx files and
| run
| it
|
| 3. If it is successful in getting your messages, save them as MAIL (
| i.e.,
| *.eml - separate, discrete messages) in a folder on your desktop.
|
| If not successful, forget what follows.
|
| 4. Delete Inbox.dbx using Explorer
|
| 5. Open OE and display its Inbox - which should now be empty
|
| 6. Select all the recovered email messages in your temporary desktop
| folder
| and drag them to the OE pane where they would normally be displayed.
|
| 7. Close OE
|
| dadiOH
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