"Lindsay Wilson" Lindsay wrote in message
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Hello,

I need some help please with my corrupt inbox.dbx file. I recently
tried to open it to edit one of the messages directly (don't ask!) and I
only
changed a few characters in the file. Unsurprisingly, when I now open up
OE6,
my inbox folder is totally empty. I tried changing removing the changes
I'd
made to the file but to no avail.

I've tried various DBX extraction programs but they all fail, they all
think the inbox.dbx file is empty where in fact is has 25MB of messages in
it.

Could somebody please, please help with this? Surely it must be possible
to convince OE6 to read the file?

Many thanks,

Lindsay

Don't store messages in the Inbox. It is the folder most apt to be
corrupted. As soon as you read them move them to user created folders.
Then compact the Inbox regularly.

Go to Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder and write down where OE
is storing its data.
Close OE.
Go there with Windows Explorer and move (not copy) Inbox.dbx to an empty
Windows
folder. With Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3 it will be a hidden file.

You can use either of these tools to extract the messages from the old DBX
file:

DBXtract ($5): http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/ although this tool is faster
and better:
DBXpress: ($25) http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
Do NOT extract to the desktop!
With a large file this can take a long time, so let it keep running.

The messages can be dragged from a Windows folder back into an OE folder in
OE's Folder List.

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