I am running Outlook Express 6.0 and today when I opened up, discovered to my
horror that all my email messages had dissapeared.

Is there a way to recover the emails?

Faraon wrote:

> I am running Outlook Express 6.0 and today when I opened up, discovered to my
> horror that all my email messages had dissapeared.
>
> Is there a way to recover the emails?

If you have a back up, just restore OE ... if you don't, now you know
that back up is a computer user's best friend.

Did you, per chance, shut down while the auto compacting message popped
up after closing OE? What *did* you do before this happened?

Alias

See:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
Recovering lost messages
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Faraon" <Faraon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0C3D9F9A-CCC4-4014-BBAB-3DB1E9DD8FA4@microsoft.com...
>I am running Outlook Express 6.0 and today when I opened up, discovered
>to my
> horror that all my email messages had dissapeared.
>
> Is there a way to recover the emails?

Why it happens:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

Recovering data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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

OEX (OE Enhancement Program)
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Avoid Such Corruption in Future:

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

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual
compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm.

- WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
automatically compacting your message store.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.

--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

Faraon wrote:
> I am running Outlook Express 6.0 and today when I opened up, discovered to
> my horror that all my email messages had dissapeared.
>
> Is there a way to recover the emails?