-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Outlook Express in box - poof!! gone
- From: <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:38:45 -0400
Look in your deleted items folder. If they are not there, look in
your recycle bin for a file named Inbox.dbx. If the date deleted is
the date you lost the emails then it is likely the folder with your
saved emails in it.
To recover them, open OE and then save any messages in the existing
Inbox by moving them to any other convenient folder. Then close OE
and return to the recycle bin. Right click on the Inbox.dbx and
select restore. Click OK to overwrite if prompted.
Open OE and your emails should be back. If not, they may be gone
forever. If you have a recent backup you could restore the latest
Inbox.dbx by saving messages as described above and closing OE and
then opening your backup software and restoring the latest copy of
Inbox.dbx. Click OK to overwrite if prompted.
If overwriting does not restore as expected, try navigating to the
message store folder and deleting the inbox.dbx first. The message
store folder can be located by going to Outlook
Express/Tools/Options/Maintenance/Store Folder.
Do NOT click on Change. To close, click Cancel.
Be sure Outlook Express is closed when deleting or restoring dbx
files.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 7:45 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Outlook Express in box - poof!! gone
> first - I hope everyone is ok
> after that massive hurricane!
> It even hit us here in western
> Pennsylvania. I lost power
> last sunday night and
> I just got it back!! It is
> blamed on the hurricane - we
> had wind gusts to 80 mph.
> I can't even imagine what it
> was like down in that main
> hurricane area after how it
> was here!
>
> on to my problem!
>
> Just before we lost power - I
> don't believe it had anything
> to do with that,
> I came in to turn the computer
> off and Outlook Express said
> it had an error and had to
> close. When I restarted it, my
> in box was gone - well, lets
> say, all of my saved emails in
> my inbox were gone! POOF!! it
> had only 4 new emails in it.
> So now after these days
> without power, I booted my
> computer and opened OE, and it
> brought in new emails, but all
> of my old inbox emails are
> gone.
>
> Is there a way to get them
> back? or did it delete my
> original inbox dbx file? that
> is my guess - but I thought I
> would ask, just in case.
>
> thanks!
> Cris
>
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