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OE Compacting files
My OE recently starting compacting all my email messages, I have nothing left
in my inbox, outbox... How can I retrieve them? and how can I stop OE from compacting in the future? Thanks |
OE Compacting files
The two most common reasons for what you describe is disruption of the
compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or 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~ "Marie" wrote in message ... My OE recently starting compacting all my email messages, I have nothing left in my inbox, outbox... How can I retrieve them? and how can I stop OE from compacting in the future? Thanks |
OE Compacting files
There is a new patch that addresses the compaction problem. See
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 Also see point 4 on that page for message recovery techniques. Its likely that the only thing that might help recover the messages is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress, as the messages are probably no longer in the files, regardless of file size. steve "Marie" wrote in message ... My OE recently starting compacting all my email messages, I have nothing left in my inbox, outbox... How can I retrieve them? and how can I stop OE from compacting in the future? Thanks |
OE Compacting files
"Marie" wrote in message ... My OE recently starting compacting all my email messages, I have nothing left in my inbox, outbox... How can I retrieve them? and how can I stop OE from compacting in the future? Thanks |
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