The DBX file structure is fragile.

There are utilities available for purchase to recover messages from
corrupted DBX files.

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


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Hans Näslund" wrote in message
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Thank you for you reply! I understand now that OE is a rather unstable
email program...

Unfortunately, none of your suggestions did really help - it was not
possible to recover the lost messages, and the backup did not contain
the lost messages either, when I finally managed to import the dbx
file into OE (they were probably lost before the backup was made).

My guess is that the dbx file may have been corrupted by Norton
AntiVirus, so I have now disabled email scanning in NAV.

But the strange thing is that only some of the messages diappeared,
while all the others remain - according to the the sites you referred
to, the whole dbx file should have been lost...


"Michael Santovec" skrev i meddelandet
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See:
Messages in Inbox or other mail folders disappear
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
Recovering lost messages
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Hans Näslund" wrote in message
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All of a sudden, all emails from June 13 to October 12, 2006
disappeared from one of my email folders. Any hints why that could
have happened?

When I try to recreate the emails from the previous backup, OE is
unable to import the recreated dbx file - it tells me that there are
no messages in the folder where the dbx file is located. Why is
that?