I was working along in another application when I received a dialoge
box with
a status bar that stated Clean up was compacting various folders in
Outlook Express.
After this completed I tried later today to retieive messages from my
Outlook Express. My inbox, deleted,a nd spam folders where all empty. I
tried calling
Norton, It's like talking to a wall. They could not understand what I
was
tryting to say, so I gave up. Is there any feature in Outlook Express
that compacts
the folders in outlook express. I don't think this is some kind of
virus,
just did a scann last PM. I really think it was nortons, but I look at
Outlook express, and it looks like it has a mial feature called clean
up. Is
this possible. Really need to get them back. Thanks in advance.

Look in your message store folder for any DBX files that may have a number
appended, such as Inbox(1).dbx, etc. These would be evidence of file
corruption in the DBX files that makes them unreadable. Also check that the
DBX files have data in them, by opening them in Notepad or Wordpad, since
Norton and McAffee have both been known to insert all "zeroes" in the file
when they find anything suspicious.

If using Windows 2000 or XP, the DBX file are hidden by the operating sytem
so you will have to modify the search criteria to include searching for
hidden file on the Advanced button in Search.

There is a utility, DBXpress, that can extract messages from disk, if the
space the messages occupied has not been overwritten. Read about it at
www.oehelp.com

And make sure you disable email scanning by any antivirus application as it
provides not one whit of added protection and can seriously corrupt your
database files for stored messages. See the info in this article for more:
The Other E-Mail Threat: File Corruption in Outlook Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"wizof103" <wizof103@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
news:1134339411.259820.14000@f14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
>I was working along in another application when I received a dialoge
> box with
> a status bar that stated Clean up was compacting various folders in
> Outlook Express.
> After this completed I tried later today to retieive messages from my
> Outlook Express. My inbox, deleted,a nd spam folders where all empty. I
> tried calling
> Norton, It's like talking to a wall. They could not understand what I
> was
> tryting to say, so I gave up. Is there any feature in Outlook Express
> that compacts
> the folders in outlook express. I don't think this is some kind of
> virus,
> just did a scann last PM. I really think it was nortons, but I look at
> Outlook express, and it looks like it has a mial feature called clean
> up. Is
> this possible. Really need to get them back. Thanks in advance.
>
>

first then look inWindows Explorer to some thing like this, c
beening the hard drive where you window is install on

C:\Documents and Settings\dirtfarmer\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{B12869C1-06BA-49E3-A6FE-8ACA4C0342A7}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express

in the outlook express file you find or hope to find a lot of .dbx files
that your email, and where ther are store at

bleieve me i know what it like to lost file, the othe day i save all my
..dbx, before i reinsatll xp
now it refuse to import email back to outlook but ther are there
i covert them back to one and one email but now in outlook express use
the DBXtract pr0gram
it a pain but at least you have a copy of the e mail at least






http://www.oemailrecovery.com/reading-dbx-files.html
What is OE-Mail Recovery?

OE-Mail Recovery is an easy-to-use tool that allows you to open .dbx files,
read dbx files and restore your damaged Outlook Express data. It recovers
corrupted emails and news messages, address book, rules and signatures and
saves them in format that can be easily read by any email client. This
software is easy to use and has a simplified user interface, very friendly
to beginners
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< <

http://www.mailnavigator.com/
http://www.mailnavigator.com/mailnavigator.html

MailNavigator software has been created out of combination of the two
advanced tools required for operation with email and usenet news:

a.. FILTER - is a powerful system for information search in the mailboxes
and mailbox folders of the majority of popular mail programs.

b.. NAVIGATOR - is a very convenient mail and news browser featuring
advanced capabilities

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and if you can find your mail file but can not read this program can
covert .dbx files of which outlook express mail files are store as, to
e mail you van read, but it does not import it back to outlook express

the program name is DBXtract

http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...3383&fileidx=1
download

one other thing
file for outlook express would be in viable to you right now, ontil you
made then show up

go to control panel/folder options./view
and down the list ther is show all hdden files and folder
click that one
and what do you kbnow the files show up in Windows Explorer