Help! I opened my Outlook Express and all my emails and email folders had all disappeared without a trace. What happened?

Help! I opened my Outlook Express and all my emails and email folders had all disappeared without a trace. What happened Asked by shara7 60 months ago Similar Questions: Help opened Outlook Express emails email folders disappeared trace happened Recent Questions About: Help opened Outlook Express emails email folders disappeared trace happened Computers > Internet.

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Corrupted ...do not compress your folder Your Folder. Dbx file may be corrupted, your inbox. Dbx may become corrupted.

This may happen when the file inbox. Dbx becomes too large. If you keep all your emails and have 1000's off them all in the inbox folder, the chance that it may become corrupted is higher.

Here is a recommendation on how to get them back First, backup the corrupted inbox. Dbx by copying it to other folder, so you can always back in time if something unexpected happened during the rescue operation. 1.

If you accidentally delete emails from your inbox, you can always find the deleted messages in Deleted Items folder in outlook express. If you accidentally also delete it from Deleted Items, the message is seems to be permanently deleted. As I said before, it is not.

It is still in the . Dbx file and you just need a tool to recover from it. Tools like Iolo Search and Recover may help.

It can recover deleted Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, Thunderbird, and Eudora e-mail. But it CAN NOT recover the missing emails due to mail folder. Dbx corruption.

That is why we need to look at other tools. 2. If you don’t know how your last year emails disappeared without track from your inbox, then it may be because the mail folder inbox.

Dbx becomes corrupted. Fortunately there are tools that can recall the disappeared emails from its hiding place. This can be done only under one condition: You HAVE NOT follow the suggestion on the Microsoft site to compact you email folders since the corruption.

3. This are the steps you can follow a. Download and install the tools from: http://macallan.club.fr/SETUP/OutLookExpressExtraction.zip b.

Exit from Outlook Express. C. Copy the corrupted folder inbox.

Dbx from C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{SOME-GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\ to other folder, let say c:\inbox. Dbx d. Rename the original inbox.

Dbx in the C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{SOME-GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\ directory to inbox-corrupted. Dbx e. Run the Macallan Outlook Express Extraction from your start menu or from your desktop, open the c:\inbox.

Dbx file. It will take some times depend on the size of the . Dbx file (or the number of emails), be patient.

F. The extracted emails will be listed, now you can choose to extract all emails from menu Extractions. The extracted emails will be saved in directory c:\inbox\.

Now open this folder in explorer. G. Open Outlook express and point to inbox folder which is now empty because we have renamed the original inbox.

Dbx to inbox-corrupted. Dbx h. Copy all the files except the .

Log file from within the folder c:\inbox and (drag)paste it in the inbox folder in Outlook Express. Be patient, it will take some times, depends on the number of emails being processed. I.

Now smile, I hope your emails are back by now. 4. Backup your last years emails to other folder than inbox.

Create new folder called Inbox2005 and move your emails dated before 2006 to the folder. It will help prevent your inbox folder becomes too large. http://geeks.netindonesia.net/blogs/tahir/archive/2006/11/20/My-e_2D00_mails-Mysteriously-Disappeared-from-Outlook-Express-Inbox-Folder_2C00_-Can-I-get-it-back_3F00_.aspx Sources: http://geeks.netindonesia.net/blogs/tahir/archive/2006/11/20/My-e_2D00_mails-Mysteriously-Disappeared-from-Outlook-Express-Inbox-Folder_2C00_-Can-I-get-it-back_3F00_.aspx ~XSpoonX~'s Recommendations Outlook Express version 6 Used from: $20.45 .

You or someone else deleted your . Pst files. Check your recycling bin.

If you have any files in there that say Outlook or . Pst, restore them. If your bin automatically empties, you may be s.o.l.

This most commonly happens when someon is trying to "clean up" their computer and accidently deletes files that they were unsure of, or didn't know what they were. OR... Someone deleted them in order to cover something they sent, recieved, or opened. Bwa-ha-ha!

I love to throw in a sinister twist, but seriously, it is possible. I hope I was able to help you a bit.

. Dbx files I don´t know what happened, but look for *. Dbx files.

Those files store your outlook express information. Move them back to where your outlook express stores the files, or change the outlook express settings to point to where those files are. Hope that helps, ~ms subjectalert.com .

1 Great information...I really learned a lot. I was able to recover some of my emails but not all of them or the ones that I had in folders on the side. Not sure why...However, I know now to keep my inbox less cluttered to avoid this situation...the best lesson of all.

Thanks! ~XSpoonX~, regarding your answer "Corrupted ...do not compress your folder": .

Great information...I really learned a lot. I was able to recover some of my emails but not all of them or the ones that I had in folders on the side. Not sure why...However, I know now to keep my inbox less cluttered to avoid this situation...the best lesson of all.

Thanks! ~XSpoonX~, regarding your answer "Corrupted ...do not compress your folder.

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How do I save my outlook express emails when reloading the OS.

I did a system recovery on my PC (windows xp) and I have lost all of my Outlook Express folders and emails.

How to make folders in microsoft outlook express so that you can send emails directly to that folder when in arrives.

How do I delete all but the last email in a trail of emails between two people using Outlook.

When deleting emails,in outlook express , I cannot find them in the deleted folder. Where did they go?

I, want reinstaller outlook express email, because i, have but not work good, not sent the email.

I just had my internet go out. After it did, I opened a few folders, then minimized them. Now, they won't close!

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