donna wrote:
Jason - I had the same experience with DBXpress and couldn't agree with you
more. I also haven't talked with anyone who has had any success with the
program. And there are system requirements and program limitations of the
extract from file option that had I know about it upfront, I would never have
purchased this program. It was a complete waste of my time and money. BUYER
BEWARE!

No need to beware anything if you keep a back up of OE current and on
removable media. I could lose all my messages right now and in less than
one minute, have them all -- except some I just sent -- back and ready
to go. Back up is a computer user's best friend ;-)

Here's a good back up program:

http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

Here's a good tool to compact your messages manually and set the count
back to zero so that if you have a power failure or compacting is
interrupted some other way -- and it happens to be the 100th time you
close OE -- you won't lose your messages. If you receive a lot of
messages, compact daily. If you get ten emails a week, monthly :-)

http://www.oehelp.com/OETool/Default.aspx

It does a lot of other things besides compact.

Both programs are free ware and I have had very positive experience with
both of them.

Alias

"jason" wrote:

There have been a lot of threads regarding the flaw in OE6 that causes entire
folders to be lost if you interrupt the compacting process. Unfortunately,
OE6 gives you the option to "Cancel" the compacting process at any time
without warning you that anything will occur as a result of your doing so.
This is a serious design flaw that has not been remedied by Microsoft.

However, I know almost a dozen persons who have tried the recovery program
DBXpress with no measurable success. I note that it is recommended by most
techs in this newsgroup on a regular basis including by the person who
designed the program. But this program is equally flawed. The chances are
very good that you will not "extract from file," which is the only option
that will allow you to filter or specify what folders you want to recover
from.

If you are forced to "extract from drive," you must have a 2nd hard drive
available to avoid corruption and over-writing and you will be unable to
specify the folders you want. This means you will get every message you
already have as well as deleted messages with little chance at that point of
recovering any of your lost messages. This can be an organizational nightmare
and none of this is openly disclosed before you purchase the program.

You should take these things into serious consideration before purchasing
DBXpress.

Jason