[muglo] cannot rebuild/recover OE database

This came directly to me but I forwarded it as someone my be able to 
help?
Paul

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Thorkild Mark Christensen" <thorkildchristensen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: November 29, 2003 3:57:26 PM EST
> To: <pthomas@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: MUGLO Pages
>
> Hello
>  
> I am from Denmark and i have problem with my Outlook Express. I go to 
> google and searh for same problem, and i find this i think you know 
> about, because i see one link from that site where the problem was 
> describe to your homepage.
> I hope maby you can help.
>  
>  
> I received this email yesterday. Maybe someone out there can help this 
> guy.
> I'm stumped.
>
> Chris
>
> ----------
> From: Deron Husak <dhusak@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:25:14 -0500
> To: <kristoff1@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: cannot rebuild/recover OE database
>
> Hello Chris,
>
> I saw your posting regarding problems with rebuilding the Outlook 
> Express
> database 
> (http://www.freelists.org/archives/muglo/10-2001/msg00047.html),
> and was wondering if there's any chance you may have some insight on 
> the
> following situation:
>
> I am using Outlook Express 5.0.4 on my Power Mac G4 and running Mac OS
> 9.2.2. While checking for new email, OE crashed and I have not been 
> able to
> use properly since.
>
> I first trashed the preferences file and restarted the app. OE then 
> gave me
> the following error messages upon launching:
> "An error occurred while launching. The end of file was reached."
>
> So I tried to compact and rebuild the database (by holding down the 
> Option
> key while starting OE), but was given this message:
> "Compacting failed. The end of file was reached."
>
> So then I tried to do a complex rebuild, and *that* did not work:
> "Rebuilding file. The end of file was reached."
>
> and was given yet another error message:
> "Rebuilding failed; if there were out of memory errors try increasing 
> the
> memory allocated to Outlook Express. If there were no memory errors it 
> is
> likely that your database cannot be repaired."
>
> Dejected but not without hope, I tried to launch OE yet again. I was 
> shown
> this message:
> "An error occurred while launching. An unknown error (4362) occurred."
>
> Any idea how I can recover my Messages database? I've tried importing 
> the
> messages into Netscape Communicator 4.75 and Eudora 5.1.1, but with no 
> luck.
> Perhaps importing into Outlook (not Outlook Express) or maybe the PC 
> version
> of OE would work? I also ran the Internet Self-Repair, but that didn't 
> help
> either.
>
> I'm at a *complete* loss as to how to recover my email, so any advice 
> would
> be appreciated - thanks so much just for reading this far!
>
> Best regards,
> Deron
>  
>  
>  
> I now have same problem on my computer, maby you know how to 
> recover/repair the database file, so i can get my e-mails to show 
> again???
>  
> Kind regards from
>  
> Jane Mark
> Denmark
>  
> www.janemark.dk- working soon...!


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