"janice" wrote in message

The 05 and 06 were in the same folder my inbox. yes oe did compact
before the loss. I notice it come up and I let it do it's thing. I
realize now I probably had way too much in there, if I knew this was
going to happen I would have been deleting some of it that I no
longer needed. Now I am in the predicament of loosing the most
current stuff. I hope this can be fixed... thanks for getting back to
me so soon.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Windows version? Were the 05 and 06 messages in separate folders, or
the same folder? Was OE compacting prior to the loss?
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"janice" wrote in message
...
I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and
now for some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the
2005 ones if it
was the other way around I could live with it, but I had some stuff
in the 2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I never
deleted anything,
this is driving me crazy please give me a simplistic explanation
how to fix
this please.....

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 and you will
have to set Windows Explorer to Show hidden files and folders (Tools |
Folder Options | View). While there, uncheck the box to Hide extensions for
known file types.

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.


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