HELP! - Outlook Express

[Marknz]

All,

For the first time in it's six years in my hands, Outlook Express just dropped all of the emails I've been storing over all those years. And as per usual, a lot of it is very important 'stuff'.

Any ideas on how to get it all back, or am I fooked?

Cheers
Mark

[slofox]

All,

For the first time in it's six years in my hands, Outlook Express just dropped all of the emails I've been storing over all those years. And as per usual, a lot of it is very important 'stuff'.

Any ideas on how to get it all back, or am I fooked?

Cheers
Mark

Talk to mister.koz on here.....

[Pussy]

All,

For the first time in it's six years in my hands, Outlook Express just dropped all of the emails I've been storing over all those years. And as per usual, a lot of it is very important 'stuff'.

Any ideas on how to get it all back, or am I fooked?

Cheers
Mark

My puter did that yesterday... about 4 months worth of "saved" emails. Pissed me off.

[MattRSK]

Hey have they been lost out of folders or inbox?

[MattRSK]

I can only find programs on the net that cost money to recover emails sorry.

[sinfull]

All,

For the first time in it's six years in my hands, Outlook Express just dropped all of the emails I've been storing over all those years. And as per usual, a lot of it is very important 'stuff'.

Any ideas on how to get it all back, or am I fooked?

Cheers
Mark

System restore is all i can think that might save ya ! My computer, control panel, performance and maintanence, system restore, ! (dont hit set a restore point or it's gone !)
go back to a date (restore point) where ya know ya had the emails !

[Winston001]

Search your pc for .dbx files - they are Outlook Express format. Its unlikely they are gone completely. I had this happen but will have to think about how I recovered them.

Sounds like you had too much mail stored up. OE doesn't like that. I create subfolders to store stuff and have moved .dbx files elsewhere on the pc to keep OE slimish.

[Pussy]

Mine just disappeared from the inbox.
All told, there were about 1300 messages in the inbox before they went.
They are only recent ones that have gone.
Did it once last year,too, when there were about 1800 messages in the inbox.
What's an easy way for puter dummies like me to find them?

[Winston001]

Ok - what I did was install Thunderbird and then imported all Outlook Express mail. That recovered everything I'd lost. I never did find out what the problem was but think I uninstalled OE, then reinstalled. For various reasons I prefer OE even though Thunderbird is very popular.

I'd find all the .dbx files you can and copy them to My Docs or a CD before doing anything more.

The other place to go is Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/.../oerepair.mspx

[Winston001]

Mine just disappeared from the inbox.
All told, there were about 1300 messages in the inbox before they went.
They are only recent ones that have gone.
Did it once last year,too, when there were about 1800 messages in the inbox.
What's an easy way for puter dummies like me to find them?

You can instruct your mail provider to hold email on their server instead of deleting it. Look in Accounts - Properties - Advanced - tick Leave A Copy On Server. That's the lesson I learned. Just clean out spam etc from time to time or you'll hit the storage limits.

[sinfull]

Mine just disappeared from the inbox.
All told, there were about 1300 messages in the inbox before they went.
They are only recent ones that have gone.
Did it once last year,too, when there were about 1800 messages in the inbox.
What's an easy way for puter dummies like me to find them?

from one dummy to another ! Go --- my computor c/ drive then open every folder and sub folder for the next 8 hours and ya might find them hehehe have fun !


Awww prior to that open my computor, then tools, options, view, show all folders !
Dont delete anything hahaha

[hospitalfood]

i can send you an invite to gmail if you want.

gives you masses of space
web based so they back it up for you, also means that you can get all your mail from any computer at any time, also means if your drive dies you don't lose a thing.

it has a heap of good fucntions as well

[Fred Dagg]

Umm, dare I suggest that 1300-1800 messages is a little excessive for a computer to deal with, and that occasionally deleting or saving them to a different folder (if you really need to keep them) would help. Of course, it is not your fault you are so popular - do a disk cleanup and defrag also helps! One other option is to do a back up or get an external hard drive....

[sinfull]

Umm, dare I suggest that 1300-1800 messages is a little excessive for a computer to deal with, and that occasionally deleting or saving them to a different folder (if you really need to keep them) would help. Of course, it is not your fault you are so popular - do a disk cleanup and defrag also helps! One other option is to do a back up or get an external hard drive....

Truth be know i'm betting it was a disc cleanup that had them dissapear ! Or an outlook can compress these files !!!

Just been to a mates place who was complaining his pc was saying not enough disc space !!! ummmm Hello 5 gig total mem. Gave him a gig to run on but not alot ya can do in them situations !
Imagine if he was using outlook !

[Gremlin]

Right... first of all, Outlook Express stores its data in a hidden folder, this webpage will detail location: http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/files/store.htm The GUID entry is a random string of numbers and letters, basically the profile name (you can have multiple entries)

A .dbx file is kept for each folder (and/or any sub folders you have created). Find these files and take a copy of them. They should be proportionately large based on how many emails you had in the folder.

Now you can work with it. I would suggest trying to re-import the emails into your profile, but it depends on how large the .dbx files appear to be (ie, have the files themselves got screwed, or just Outlook Express).