My Inbox Just. . . Died

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Randy

While reading through numerous new messages I have gotten
over the past week of vacation, I replied to one. The PC
locked up and after a reboot, Outlook Express 5 told me
that some files had been corrupted and that I should run
Scandisc to fix the problem.

Of course, Scandisc refused to run correctly through
Windows, so a quick restart into MSDOS let me run it, and
it 'fixed' several files in the Outlook directories.

However, now, Outlook says my Inbox is empty! The
Inbox.dbx file in my Windows\Application
Data\Identities\long string of
characters\Microsoft\Outlook folder is 32 megs - a
reasonable size for all the messages I used to have.

However, it still displays nothing but newly received
message in my Inbox in the program itself, rather than
looking at all of the messages in the .dbx file. I
checked the settings, and the program is supposedly
looking at the correct folder. . . so why isn't it seeing
my old emails?
 
the folders need reattached - I recommend using dbxtract to get the messages
out and putting them in new folders in OE - see
www.tomsterdam.com/insideOE/index.htm to learn how to reattach the folders
or get dbxtract.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
http://www.poremsky.com - http://www.cdolive.com

Expert Zone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30
 
Thank you very, very much ^.^
-----Original Message-----
the folders need reattached - I recommend using dbxtract to get the messages
out and putting them in new folders in OE - see
www.tomsterdam.com/insideOE/index.htm to learn how to reattach the folders
or get dbxtract.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
http://www.poremsky.com - http://www.cdolive.com

Expert Zone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
http://groups.google.com/groups? as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30


Randy said:
While reading through numerous new messages I have gotten
over the past week of vacation, I replied to one. The PC
locked up and after a reboot, Outlook Express 5 told me
that some files had been corrupted and that I should run
Scandisc to fix the problem.

Of course, Scandisc refused to run correctly through
Windows, so a quick restart into MSDOS let me run it, and
it 'fixed' several files in the Outlook directories.

However, now, Outlook says my Inbox is empty! The
Inbox.dbx file in my Windows\Application
Data\Identities\long string of
characters\Microsoft\Outlook folder is 32 megs - a
reasonable size for all the messages I used to have.

However, it still displays nothing but newly received
message in my Inbox in the program itself, rather than
looking at all of the messages in the .dbx file. I
checked the settings, and the program is supposedly
looking at the correct folder. . . so why isn't it seeing
my old emails?
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