DBXtract is very slow (especially for large files) and you need to leave it
alone and let it finish. If it says not responding that just means its
busy.

If you compact that folder, then you will lose the messages that were
deleted in it, so don't compact it.

The repair shouldn't make any difference.

steve

"Johnny" wrote in message
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Yes it's deleted messages. It's not my subject line; I'm just hitching a
ride on this thread. But I stopped dbextract when it was supposedly
scanning deleted items as it didn't seem to find anything; nothing was
moving in the statistics readout. I had done a repair on Windows xp
between the time of deletion and the running of dbextract.
Cheers,
Johnny


"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
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Your subject says deleted files, but your message says messages. Which
did you mean?

If its deleted messages, then the input would be the deleted items
folder. If you Shift-Deleted from another folder, then you'd have to set
that folder as input.

steve

"Johnny" wrote in message
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In dbxtract, where does one direct the Input to, to recover them?
Cheers,
Johnny

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
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You might be able to get them back with DBXtract.

See the recover mode description at www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/

steve

wrote in message
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Accidentally deleted messages.
Is there a way to recover them?
Tried system restore and that didn't work.