I am the Administrator/Secretary of this company and I'm handling all the
important
company emails through Outlook Express.

I do not know the latest version of OE automatically compacts folders on the
100th closing and opening of the program.

I cancelled the process thinking it was accidental and would make the
messages go to some unknown location, or worse...deleted.

It is then that all the email messages for the year 2006 were gone. (I
still have the email messages from 2000-2005

How can I recover my messages from this horrible tragic incident?

OE will ask to compact.
If they are important, how old is your backup?
Where the 2000-2006 messages in the Inbox?
--
Ron Sommer

"chathp" wrote in message
...
:I am the Administrator/Secretary of this company and I'm handling all the
: important
: company emails through Outlook Express.
:
: I do not know the latest version of OE automatically compacts folders on
the
: 100th closing and opening of the program.
:
: I cancelled the process thinking it was accidental and would make the
: messages go to some unknown location, or worse...deleted.
:
: It is then that all the email messages for the year 2006 were gone. (I
: still have the email messages from 2000-2005
:
: How can I recover my messages from this horrible tragic incident?
:

hi..thanks there.

i have a backup but up to July 2006 only. i have not restored it yet.

yes all 2000-2006 messages were in the inbox before this incident.



"Ron Sommer" wrote:

OE will ask to compact.
If they are important, how old is your backup?
Where the 2000-2006 messages in the Inbox?
--
Ron Sommer

"chathp" wrote in message
...
:I am the Administrator/Secretary of this company and I'm handling all the
: important
: company emails through Outlook Express.
:
: I do not know the latest version of OE automatically compacts folders on
the
: 100th closing and opening of the program.
:
: I cancelled the process thinking it was accidental and would make the
: messages go to some unknown location, or worse...deleted.
:
: It is then that all the email messages for the year 2006 were gone. (I
: still have the email messages from 2000-2005
:
: How can I recover my messages from this horrible tragic incident?
:

If in fact these messages were left in the INBOX the problem will reoccur
again someday.
Highly suggest you move or copy them to a different folder that you create.
SG
"chathp" wrote in message
...
hi..thanks there.

i have a backup but up to July 2006 only. i have not restored it yet.

yes all 2000-2006 messages were in the inbox before this incident.



"Ron Sommer" wrote:

OE will ask to compact.
If they are important, how old is your backup?
Where the 2000-2006 messages in the Inbox?
--
Ron Sommer

"chathp" wrote in message
...
:I am the Administrator/Secretary of this company and I'm handling all
the
: important
: company emails through Outlook Express.
:
: I do not know the latest version of OE automatically compacts folders
on
the
: 100th closing and opening of the program.
:
: I cancelled the process thinking it was accidental and would make the
: messages go to some unknown location, or worse...deleted.
:
: It is then that all the email messages for the year 2006 were gone. (I
: still have the email messages from 2000-2005
:
: How can I recover my messages from this horrible tragic incident?
:

"shakey" shakeyATsonic.net schreef in bericht
...
If in fact these messages were left in the INBOX the problem will reoccur
again someday.
Highly suggest you move or copy them to a different folder that you
create.
SG
"chathp" wrote in message
...
hi..thanks there.

i have a backup but up to July 2006 only. i have not restored it yet.

yes all 2000-2006 messages were in the inbox before this incident.



"Ron Sommer" wrote:

OE will ask to compact.
If they are important, how old is your backup?
Where the 2000-2006 messages in the Inbox?
--
Ron Sommer

"chathp" wrote in message
...
:I am the Administrator/Secretary of this company and I'm handling all
the
: important
: company emails through Outlook Express.
:
: I do not know the latest version of OE automatically compacts folders
on
the
: 100th closing and opening of the program.
:
: I cancelled the process thinking it was accidental and would make the
: messages go to some unknown location, or worse...deleted.
:
: It is then that all the email messages for the year 2006 were gone.
(I
: still have the email messages from 2000-2005
:
: How can I recover my messages from this horrible tragic incident?
:

hi...thanks there.

i don't remember any prompts to compact.

my last backup was july 2006.

all 2000-2006 msgs were in the inbox before the incident. now only up to dec
2005 are present plus new incoming msgs

"Ron Sommer" wrote:

OE will ask to compact.
If they are important, how old is your backup?
Where the 2000-2006 messages in the Inbox?
--
Ron Sommer

"chathp" wrote in message
...
:I am the Administrator/Secretary of this company and I'm handling all the
: important
: company emails through Outlook Express.
:
: I do not know the latest version of OE automatically compacts folders on
the
: 100th closing and opening of the program.
:
: I cancelled the process thinking it was accidental and would make the
: messages go to some unknown location, or worse...deleted.
:
: It is then that all the email messages for the year 2006 were gone. (I
: still have the email messages from 2000-2005
:
: How can I recover my messages from this horrible tragic incident?
:

I think your only recourse would be DBXpress with its extract from disk
feature. It will analyze the entire hard drive for OE messages, and it may
be able to recover the lost ones. See www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/

For the future see points 2 and 3 he www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx There
is now a patch that addresses the compaction issue. Also see point 4 there
for message recovery techniques.

The OE message store is extremely fragile and subject to corruption. You
should make regular backups.

steve

"chathp" wrote in message
...
I am the Administrator/Secretary of this company and I'm handling all the
important
company emails through Outlook Express.

I do not know the latest version of OE automatically compacts folders on
the
100th closing and opening of the program.

I cancelled the process thinking it was accidental and would make the
messages go to some unknown location, or worse...deleted.

It is then that all the email messages for the year 2006 were gone. (I
still have the email messages from 2000-2005

How can I recover my messages from this horrible tragic incident?

big thanks

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

I think your only recourse would be DBXpress with its extract from disk
feature. It will analyze the entire hard drive for OE messages, and it may
be able to recover the lost ones. See www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/

For the future see points 2 and 3 he www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx There
is now a patch that addresses the compaction issue. Also see point 4 there
for message recovery techniques.

The OE message store is extremely fragile and subject to corruption. You
should make regular backups.

steve

"chathp" wrote in message
...
I am the Administrator/Secretary of this company and I'm handling all the
important
company emails through Outlook Express.

I do not know the latest version of OE automatically compacts folders on
the
100th closing and opening of the program.

I cancelled the process thinking it was accidental and would make the
messages go to some unknown location, or worse...deleted.

It is then that all the email messages for the year 2006 were gone. (I
still have the email messages from 2000-2005

How can I recover my messages from this horrible tragic incident?