"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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We tend to recommend programs he
http://www.oehelp.com/

Less expensive and written by a MS-MVP that understands OE.

And DBXpress is the *only* tool that can retrieve messages after
compacting was performed.


Just to clarify, DBXpress is the only program that will ignore the file
system and read the hard disk clusters directly. Very often the file is
still there (so recovery of the file is not what is needed), but the
messages in the file are gone, but still on the disk clusters.

So by going directly to the disk clusters, one can often recover the
messages that are no longer associated with files. If you take a file and
shrink it by 50% (due to the compaction), then trying to recover the file is
not going to get back what was shrunk from it.

I don't remember the original issue here, as its not quoted, but if the
issue is loss of a single file, then yes, maybe a file recovery program to
unerase may work, but if it involves loss of messages from a file, and the
file still exists, then a file recovery or message recovery program that
works only on the file will be of no use.

cheers,

steve



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Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

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Hi,

the best way to bring back lost files is imho use data recovery tools
such as Active@ Undelete or Uneraser(for pure DOS). These are tuly
mighty utils that yet never failed me and worked simply perfectly. You
should definately try it out.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

http://www.uneraser.com/