outlook express
Did a compact on my outlook express account and now everything from august 2013 to now is gone. Anyway to get them back?
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It would appear so. Sorry.
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REbooted and now I see all the dbx files in the recycle bin. So here is the question. I only lost about 6 months of emails from the years 2012-2013. In your instuctions you said rename the file and then put the recovered bak file in the right location on the store folder. I'm assuming outlook express will then look at the one from the recycle bin that I renamed. This will be an old file. Yes it will have the emails but will I lose the new emails from the date forward? I have a folder called "payroll" In that folder I have 300 emails. 6 months are missing after the compact. If I restore the one from the recycle bin I will have the 6 months but what will happen to the other emails from like today and recent months. Maybe I'm not understanding.
http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-software/908692-restoring-dbx-files-back-into.html has an example to help. You could rename the existing folder and then restore.
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Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I can't get the instructions above to work. I have a copied all of the dbx files that were in the recycle bin into the OE store folder. When I open up OE it just shows inbox, sent, and deleted. None of the dbx files that I placed in the store folder.
I'm really late to the party here, but if you're still interested, I may be able to help. OE keeps a list of the mail folder files that it expects to be present; it doesn't simply scan a Windows folder for .dbx files (nice though that would be). So if you have a folder file named Family.dbx, but OE doesn't know that a mail folder named Family exists, it's going to blissfully ignore Family.dbx even if its in the OE storage folder.
Simple fix, though:
1) Make sure Family.dbx is either outside of the store folder or renamed to something else.
2) Start up OE.
3) Create a new mail folder named Family
4) Close OE.
5) Delete the newly created, empty Family.dbx.
6) Move or rename the real Family.dbx (from step 1)
7) Your Family message folder is ready to be used.
You can, of course, do multiple records/folders at the same time.
Simple fix, though:
1) Make sure Family.dbx is either outside of the store folder or renamed to something else.
2) Start up OE.
3) Create a new mail folder named Family
4) Close OE.
5) Delete the newly created, empty Family.dbx.
6) Move or rename the real Family.dbx (from step 1)
7) Your Family message folder is ready to be used.
You can, of course, do multiple records/folders at the same time.
Thanks for the grade. Good luck.
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