If your files got corrupted then its likely nothing will be able to recover
the lost messages from them, as they no longer contain the messages. You
can check the Recycle bin for bak files that are backups of the dbx files
(see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Otherwise, my DBXpress program
(www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) has an extract from disk feature that will bypass
the file system and analyze the entire hard drive for messages and it will
recover whatever is still on the hard drive disk clusters.

steve

"Ciro" wrote in message
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"Michael Santovec" ha scritto nel messaggio
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The background compaction option was removed starting with XP SP2. Even
with background compaction, there was no prompt.

Starting with SP2, you get the prompt to compact after 100 closings of OE
and every one thereafter until you compact.

My guess is that you recently installed XP SP3. It changes the way the
compact count gets incremented. If the main OE program is closed, every
time a DBX, EML or NWS file is accessed the count gets incremented. This
includes double clicking an EML file or sending an e-mail from another
program (if OE is the default for either) or a number of indexing
programs such as Windows Desktop Search or Nero Scout. In the latter
case, telling the indexing programs to stop indexing DBX, EML and NWS
files will stop the problem.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"R Palino" wrote in message
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Somewhere along the way, I came across an option for OE to "compact
messages in the backgroud".

Now, for some reason I am getting repeated (and I mean repeatedly!)
pop-up messages that say:

"To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This may
take a few minutes."

It also seems to take some system resources and slows down other things
I am doing.

I assume this is becuase I picked to "compact messages in the
background" that htis is now occurring.

I cant recall, nor can find this option anymore.

How do I stop getting these pop-up messages...?

THank you.





hello,

I have XP SP2 but unfortunately I chose to accept request to compress
files.
As a result I can't see my prevoius e-mails. Probably all .dbx files have
been corrupted by this operation.
I have used a lot of programs that extract .dbx files, but no one of them
have been able to recover all my mails (but just very few) even if all the
.dbx files have the same size as before compression.

Does onyone know a poerful program that recover a corrupted .dbx file or
can I hope to recover my mails in other way, for example reinstalling OE?

Thanks