I accidentally deleted an entire folder in OE instead of deleting just the
single message I had intended. After checking both the web service, and my
ISP's own mail client for the folder (no luck), I contacted the ISP, who
promised to try to recover it, but it's been over 24 hours since my contact
to them--and nothing.

Is there a way to get this folder back?

malarkey wrote:
I accidentally deleted an entire folder in OE instead of deleting just the
single message I had intended. After checking both the web service, and my
ISP's own mail client for the folder (no luck), I contacted the ISP, who
promised to try to recover it, but it's been over 24 hours since my contact
to them--and nothing.

Is there a way to get this folder back?



Have you looked in your Deleted Items folder to see if it's there?

Alias

Good thought Alias. It's not there, but I did find the Outlook Express
folder, and--while the deleted folder doesn't show up by name--it may be in
another one of the folders there. What program opens a DBX file?
"--Alias--" wrote in message
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malarkey wrote:
I accidentally deleted an entire folder in OE instead of deleting just
the single message I had intended. After checking both the web service,
and my ISP's own mail client for the folder (no luck), I contacted the
ISP, who promised to try to recover it, but it's been over 24 hours since
my contact to them--and nothing.

Is there a way to get this folder back?

Have you looked in your Deleted Items folder to see if it's there?

Alias

malarkey wrote:
Good thought Alias. It's not there, but I did find the Outlook Express
folder, and--while the deleted folder doesn't show up by name--it may be in
another one of the folders there. What program opens a DBX file?

Only Outlook Express. If the deleted folder isn't there, you'll need to
use an extract program like DBXtract.

Now you know that back up is a computer user's best friend. A good, free
back up for OE can be found at: http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

Alias


"--Alias--" wrote in message
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malarkey wrote:
I accidentally deleted an entire folder in OE instead of deleting just
the single message I had intended. After checking both the web service,
and my ISP's own mail client for the folder (no luck), I contacted the
ISP, who promised to try to recover it, but it's been over 24 hours since
my contact to them--and nothing.

Is there a way to get this folder back?
Have you looked in your Deleted Items folder to see if it's there?

Alias

"malarkey" wrote in message
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I accidentally deleted an entire folder in OE instead of deleting just the
single message I had intended. After checking both the web service, and my
ISP's own mail client for the folder (no luck), I contacted the ISP, who
promised to try to recover it, but it's been over 24 hours since my contact
to them--and nothing.

Is there a way to get this folder back?


If you are running Win2K, WinXP or Win2K3 then DBXtract will find any
messages on the hard drive that have not actually been overwritten.
www.oehelp.com

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve
neither liberty or security"

DBXtract does not have the capability of analyzing the entire hard drive.
Only DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) does this.

And it he has an intact dbx file, which seems unlikely, he can manually
import it via the method in the last paragraph he
www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx , which doesn't require purchasing a 3rd party
program. But that is only if the file is not corrupt.

steve

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote in message
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"malarkey" wrote in message
...
I accidentally deleted an entire folder in OE instead of deleting just the
single message I had intended. After checking both the web service, and
my ISP's own mail client for the folder (no luck), I contacted the ISP,
who promised to try to recover it, but it's been over 24 hours since my
contact to them--and nothing.

Is there a way to get this folder back?


If you are running Win2K, WinXP or Win2K3 then DBXtract will find any
messages on the hard drive that have not actually been overwritten.
www.oehelp.com

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve neither liberty or security"

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
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DBXtract does not have the capability of analyzing the entire hard drive.
Only DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) does this.


Darn ... I knew that.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve
neither liberty or security"

It gave me a plug opportunity. VBG

steve

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote in message
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"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
DBXtract does not have the capability of analyzing the entire hard drive.
Only DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) does this.


Darn ... I knew that.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve neither liberty or security"