Please help --All my OE Inbox emails have disappeared

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Anna Baum

Please help --All my OE Inbox emails have disappeared

I have OE 6.0

I do not know why. All of a sudden all my inbox have disappeared.

The emails in the other folders like Sent Mail appear to be there.

The inbox emails are so very important to me. Is there anyone in this
group that can please help me.

Thank you very much.

Anna
 
You didn't mention what Operating System. Windows 98? XP? It's possible you
either logged in as another user or you have different Identities on Outlook
Express.

Either way. Go to search and search the C drive for *.dbx. This will find
any files or folders on your hard drive.

Once you find the folder where the files are stored, you can go to
File/Import and import the folders into your current Outlook Express Profile
from that folder.

C.E. Jones
 
Start here: http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone.
~~~~~~~~~~~
DBXtract
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXtend (additional functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtend/Default.aspx

DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
~~~~~~~~~~~

Inbox.dbx is damaged. Close OE and then Move Inbox.dbx from your store
folder (http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/store.htm) to another Windows
(not OE) folder and run any of the above applications on the moved file. (A
new, empty Inbox.dbx will be created when you next open OE.)

If one of the above applications successfully recovers any messages, count
yourself fortunate. Do *not* import the messages from the moved DBX file
back into OE! Recovered messages may be dragged into an open OE folder,
but...

Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

Disable Background Compacting and frequently perform a manual compact of all
OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm.

Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
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OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

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