can anyone help me, my pc has compressed my inbox emails , where do they go
and how can i get them back. any help would be very nice

I suspect that OE "Compacted" the mail files and after that , you have
missing messages.

Compacting doesn't "compress" mails, instead it recovers wasted space
from deleted messages and returns it to the operating system for other
programs to use.

Sometimes things can go wrong during compacting, such as the PC crashing
or being shutdown.

Take a look at these:
Messages in Inbox or other mail folders disappear
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
Recovering lost messages
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

--

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


"dbc9mx" wrote in message
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can anyone help me, my pc has compressed my inbox emails , where do
they go
and how can i get them back. any help would be very nice

hiya thanks for that i will give it a go, not to up on all this stuff.



"Michael Santovec" wrote:

I suspect that OE "Compacted" the mail files and after that , you have
missing messages.

Compacting doesn't "compress" mails, instead it recovers wasted space
from deleted messages and returns it to the operating system for other
programs to use.

Sometimes things can go wrong during compacting, such as the PC crashing
or being shutdown.

Take a look at these:
Messages in Inbox or other mail folders disappear
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
Recovering lost messages
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

--

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


"dbc9mx" wrote in message
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can anyone help me, my pc has compressed my inbox emails , where do
they go
and how can i get them back. any help would be very nice

The two most common reasons for what you describe is disruption of the
compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), and bloated
folders. More on that below.

Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it?:
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#compact

Why Mail Disappears:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone

About File Corruption:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

Recovery tools:

If you are using a fully patched version of XP/SP2, see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918069/en-us

If not:

DBXpress run in Disk Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

And see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

A general warning if you don't want to lose your messages in the futu

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

And backup often.

Backup and Resto

http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/

http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

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can anyone help me, my pc has compressed my inbox emails , where do they
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and how can i get them back. any help would be very nice