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How do I get my old inbox back?

My computer had some network difficulty. After shutting down I noticed my Outlook Express inbox was empty. When browsing to my OE folder I see two inboxes, 1) Inbox.dbx 10MB, 2) Inbox (1).dbx 75kb. . How do I get my original inbox back? I'm running XP SP2.

Thanks in advance,
TT

tlowejr

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=295965

This might help but instead of folders do it for your inbox.

TommyTupa

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I guess I wasn't clear enough.

My oe folders are contained in c:\stores\. My original inbox path was c:\stores\inbox.dbx. After some network problems and a reboot, my inbox path is now c:\stores\inbox (1).dbx. All my email is contained in c:\stores\inbox.dbx and I don't know how to access it.

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war1

TommyTupa,

To import emails into OE, go to File > Import and follow the prompts to import emails from Outlook Express 5.x

TommyTupa

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No joy, so downloaded S-AIO. Messages were quickly recovered into auto-generated 'recovered' folder. Beautiful program. Guess I deserved this for using OE in the first place.

martinplourde

First make sure OE are closed before doing this.

I think you can just delete inbox(1).dbx and rename inbox.dbx to inbox(1).dbx.

I already face that problem and it's the easiest way I found to resolve the problem. Note that if inbox.dbx is corrupted, after renaming it in inbox(1).dbx it will be renamed to inbox(2).dbx.

Good luck