Re: [PCWorks] All email in Inbox GONE, but Inbox.dbx file still shows

From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:30:13 -0600
Vern your post didn't go to the list because you didn't remove 
the footer.

I don't know if you saw the fix I posted for this yet:
//www.freelists.org/post/pcworks/Fixed-All-email-in-Inbox-GONE-but-Inboxdbx-file-still-shows-thousands-of-emails-where-are-they
 
(Interesting how FreeLists changed their archive format).  I 
had to delete the inbox file to fix it.
-Clint

God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com


----- Original Message ----- 

Clint,

Sorry I'm a couple days behind on reading my email.

This is a problem I had a while back. Here is a copy of an 
email I sent at
that time. Remember that is the "unread" emails that were 
moved.

Clint,

Last week I wrote in about this problem. Well I looked at the 
inbox.dbx file
and it said 73,365Kb after I emptied it. I moved all the unread 
e mails to
another folder to save them. So I renamed that inbox.dbxx and 
the next time
I started up Outlook Express the new inbox had the formerly 
read e mails I
had lost. Also now when I leave that e mail account and then 
return, the
read e mails are not disappearing as before.

Strange situation but if you ever hear of it again this will 
work.

Vern

----- Original Message ----- 


> OE on my Dad's PC is fried.  I told him months ago he MUST go
> through the inbox and delete the emails he doesn't need or 
> put
> them in other folders because at that time he had 2500+ 
> emails,
> and the folders could not be compacted due to corruption.  No
> backup could be made either because the program said the same
> thing about corruption.  Well, he didn't.  Now at 4700 
> emails,
> the inbox go so corrupted that NO EMAIL could even be
> downloaded!  It was giving the error 0x800C0133 while trying 
> to
> download email.
>
> So I told him to not try and receive anymore email, I 
> disabled
> the auto check for email, and I told him he has to now go
> through the inbox and move all the email to a folder on the 
> HD.
> Doing a "Select all" of the emails and dragging them to the
> folder did not work, nothing happened!  So he's been manually
> going through them one-by-one and putting them in other 
> folders
> on the HD.  But during this process he really screwed up
> something bad.  I have absolutely no idea what he did, but
> EVERY EMAIL in the inbox disappeared!  The inbox is TOTALLY
> EMPTY.  Yet I looked in the inbox.dbx file in the storage
> folder, and it's almost 1GB in size!  Where the heck is the
> email???????  How can they be recovered?
>
> If they can't be recovered by conventional means, then I know
> about the dbx extractors that may work to extract the .eml
> files from the dbx file.  I think I have one or two that I'll
> try after reading replies about this problem.  DBXtract 
> works,
> but that won't fix the problem.
>
> I tried deleted the folders.dbx file, that didn't help.  I 
> also
> tried to create a new identity, but it will not switch
> identities!  I try and change, OE closes and immediately 
> opens
> up again, still on Main Identity!
>
> ALL other folders he's created CAN be compacted.  I have not
> tried to compact the allegedly "empty" inbox yet in its 
> present
> state out of fear that may clear the inbox.dbx file back to 
> the
> default empty (I think it is) 72k.
> -Clint

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