"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote in message
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"Eric Wang" wrote in message
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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?
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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.


Just a clarification. DBXpress (and DBXtract) will recover messages in
their entirety including attachments.

If the messages were manually deleted from the deleted items folder or they
were Shift-Deleted from another folder, then those messages can also be
recovered (using the Recover Mode feature of DBXpress), but they will be
missing 4 bytes for every 512 byte segment of the message, so the message
will not be completely recoverable and in this case attachments will not be
recoverable.

But if the messages were just lost or accidentally deleted via file
deletion, then they are completely recoverable (including attachments) with
the extract from disk feature of DBXpress.

Your last sentence there seemed to indicate otherwise.

cheers,

steve



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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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