You might be able to recover them with DBXpress's extract from disk function
(www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/).

Also see points 2, 3, and 4 he www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx

steve

"Ursula" wrote in message
...
Hi Frank,
Thank you for the information for the future. I'll make sure to put msgs
into my "own" folders, and will look at those updates.
However, I did not shut down the computer while it was compacting. I don't
shut down this computer because the switch is fickle. I only close the
mail
program.
And, I still need to know how to retrieve those emails for my rescue work.
Has anyone been successful in doing that, and how?
Thank you, Ursula

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:

"Ursula" wrote in message
...

Hi,
I'm new to the forum, and I'm sorry I can't figure out how to initiate
a
new
msg.
My question has to do with compaction. I authorized compaction when I
shut
down last night, and it deleted all of the msgs in my inbox since
March.
My inbox is full, and I have been cleaning it up, but it has deleted
important msgs related to dog rescue, so I would really like to have
them
back.
Has anyone else dealt with this? I do not have it set to delete when
compacting.
Thank you, Ursula


If you authorized compaction and shut down the computer without waiting
for
the compaction to complete that caused message loss.

Compacting of folders is necessary or they will become corrupted or else
so
large that they can no longer be used. Deleting a message does not
reclaim
the space. The message is marked as deleted but is still there until the
folder is compacted. That is why programs such as DBXtract work.

If a user closes compacting while compacting is in progress data loss
will
probably occur.

Don't store messages in the default OE folders. Move them to user
created
folders as soon as possible.

Open OE and close it and let it compact the messages. After doing this
it
won't ask again until you have closed OE 100 times.

If you have WinXP SP2 you will want this update:
There are two articles, KB918766 and KB918651, but the latter is not
currently available. The download link is
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

It places the backup in Recycled, overwriting any earlier backup of the
same folder(s). To use it, copy it to the store folder, delete the one
you
want to replace and then rename the BAK file to DBX. (It's a bit more
complicated if the messed up DBX file isn't there or contains messages
that
are hew that you want to keep.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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