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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!
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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
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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?
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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!)
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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?
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To avoid the loss of emails in the future -
Backup..
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Backup..
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
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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.
In that third paragraph, under which window would I do , " To work around this, click File| Identities| Add New Identity"
In OE.
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.
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the in boxes are dated 16-o6-06 X 2both having 5818 kb, and 16-10-06 with 2315 kb
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the in boxes are dated 16-o6-06 X 2both having 5818 kb, and 16-10-06 with 2315 kb
It's impossible to have more than one inbox.dbx in the same folder. Are they named slightly differently or in different (sub)folders? Either way, rename them to oldinbox1.dbx, oldinbox2.dbx etc. and put them all in the same folder. The procedure will create an empty inbox.dbx and, as long as you as you have deleted folders.dbx, create an OE personal folder for each .dbx file.
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It's impossible to have more than one inbox.dbx in the same folder. Are they named slightly differently or in different (sub)folders? Either way, rename them to oldinbox1.dbx, oldinbox2.dbx etc. and put them all in the same folder. The procedure will create an empty inbox.dbx and, as long as you as you have deleted folders.dbx, create an OE personal folder for each .dbx file.
All of them have the same name,(inbox.dbx) with the kb's as above.
How do I put them in the same folder? they are,at the moment in the search window.
I am a complete novice at this , but as I see it the ones that I have in the search window need importing to OE, in simple terms how do i do that? assuming i am correct in what I am saying
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All of them have the same name,(inbox.dbx) with the kb's as above.
How do I put them in the same folder? they are,at the moment in the search window.
Open Windows Explorer, create a new folder in My Documents, say 'OE recover', select them in the search window and drag into the OE recover folder.
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Open Windows Explorer, create a new folder in My Documents, say 'OE recover', select them in the search window and drag into the OE recover folder.
Have done that, but looking back to my search window it has duplicated the searches ,so there is now 28 items, as it has only put in 1 "inbox.dbx" dated 16-06-06
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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
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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
Ignore that first sentence.
You have folders.dbx, but you are going to create a new OE identity, copy all .dbx files from your current identity into the store folder for the new identity and delete folders.dbx in the new store folder. When you open OE for the new identity it will recreate folders.dbx based on the other .dbx files in that identity's store folder.
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Sounds like search has simply picked up the files you've copied into the OE recover folder. If there are multiple inbox.dbx files in the search window, copy them individually to OE recover folder. If it says the file already exists, click Cancel, go to OE recover, rename the existing inbox.dbx file to something like oldinbox1.dbx and then the copy should work without warning you. Repeat this for each inbox.dbx file in the search window, and use a different filename for the rename, e.g. oldinbox2, oldinbox3 etc. The idea is to get all your .dbx files with unique file names in one folder.
When finished, close the search window.
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would it be better to cancel everthing and start a new search, because I have now copied everthing that is in the search window to the OE recover folder,when i was asked if i wanted to change any files as they where already in the folder, i clicked no.
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Yes, start again. Delete everything in OE recover folder and search again.
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Have deleted OE recover folder, tried to delete search window, but get this message:- cannot delete file: cannot read from the source file or disc.
Have deleted recycle bin