Hi,

2 Days back all my sent messages of 2006 are missing or got deleted
from Outlook Express. I thought it might be a problem in outlook
Express itself I tried to restore from Identies folder by importing
messages but its missing from there as well. Where has my messages
gone somebody please help me.


Tanveer


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"survivor4you" wrote in message
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Hi,

2 Days back all my sent messages of 2006 are missing or got deleted
from Outlook Express. I thought it might be a problem in outlook
Express itself I tried to restore from Identies folder by importing
messages but its missing from there as well. Where has my messages
gone somebody please help me.




Go to Tools | Options | Maintenance tab
Press the sotre folders button and note the location of the mesage stores
(DBX files)

Open that folder and check to see if there are any Inbox(x).dbx files where
the x is a number.

if none, check for .dbt files.

if none, get DBXpress http://www.oehelp.com
it can scan the hard drive for the old messages. You will have to remember
as the computer writes to the hard drive, old messages can be deleted.

Hi,

Thanks for ur suggestions, but I noticed the Sent Items.dbx files which
I copied from the folder of Identities the size was 34Mb but when I
restored again by importing messages in Outlook express the size was 16
Mb. Current sent Item size is 16MB while the Original size is 34MB. How
do I go ahead now.

Tanveer


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survivor4you
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There is lots of wasted space in dbx files so there is no way to determine
if there was message loss from the size of the files. Also, I have seen
huge dbx files that have become corrupted and are full of zeroes.

see here for message recovery techniques (www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4) and
points 2 and 3 for the future.

steve

"survivor4you" wrote in message
...

Hi,

Thanks for ur suggestions, but I noticed the Sent Items.dbx files which
I copied from the folder of Identities the size was 34Mb but when I
restored again by importing messages in Outlook express the size was 16
Mb. Current sent Item size is 16MB while the Original size is 34MB. How
do I go ahead now.

Tanveer


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survivor4you
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