"Bruce Hagen" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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"Roland Mösl" wrote in message
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"Bruce Hagen" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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To restore a bak folder to the message store folder, first find the
location of the Message Store.

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Write the location down and navigate to it
in Windows Explorer or, copy and paste it into Start | Run.

In WinXP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these
files in Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under
Start | Control Panel | Folder Options | View.

There are 3 inbox.bak found.

Newest is from August 2nd with 380 MB
Current inbox.dbx has 600 MB

Seems this will not help

Then you need a recovery tool as I indicated.
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

If you have not compacted since the date of the oldest missing message,
DBXtract should work. However, it may take a very long time and if it
fails, you will need DBXpress and there is no refund for either.

Thanks, it worked!

Be sure to heed the precautions I posted in the future.

There are big backup problems with Outlock Express

I have written my own database system.
It creates year-month files.

So at a backup of files changed,
only a small part of all files have to
be copied.

But Outlock Express always marks at start all DBX Files as
changed, making OE Backup a time consuming hell.

I think at software design, there should be also thoughts
how to make easy backups.

From the rest of my system, I have daily backups
from the changed files.

Only OE is a huge problem case.

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