"Eric Wang" wrote in message
...
OE6 crashed while compacting my folders.
After restarting, I found that:
a) 942 .dbx files were truncated to the empty size (59 or 137 KB)
b) 176 .dbx files remained the same size, but were trashed to all-00 hex
bytes
c) 385 .dbx files survived OK

OE6 treats both (a) and (b) folders as having 0 messages.

I have since found KB918069/918766. Comparing my DLL versions, I see that
I
did _not_ have this update, on either of my 2 PCs. Hence, it must be
something that Windows Update doesn't automatically install. (I've since
installed it, but that's too late to help.)

So OE6 lost 75% of my e-mail folders, dating back 12 years.
How can I restore these .dbx files?
--
Eric

The only thing I know with any hope of restoring them is DBXpress
(www.oehelp.com). Run in disk mode it will search the entire hard drive for
orphaned messages. You want to use it as soon as possible so that as few
messages get overwritten as possible. It will even recover messages from a
formatted drive, but it won't recover most attachments if any.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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