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Retrieve from Back up for OE
One of my folders containing a number of emails has disappeared from my
"saved" folders. I have a back up on an external HD. Is it possible to retrieve just those? |
Retrieve from Back up for OE
Let's say the folder's name is "Mail from Work".
Open your Recycle Bin Do you find a file named "Mail from Work.bak"? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) Happy wrote: One of my folders containing a number of emails has disappeared from my "saved" folders. I have a back up on an external HD. Is it possible to retrieve just those? |
Retrieve from Back up for OE
No, there's not. But I do empty my recycle bin quite regularly.
"PA Bear" wrote in message ... Let's say the folder's name is "Mail from Work". Open your Recycle Bin Do you find a file named "Mail from Work.bak"? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) Happy wrote: One of my folders containing a number of emails has disappeared from my "saved" folders. I have a back up on an external HD. Is it possible to retrieve just those? |
Retrieve from Back up for OE
Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (last paragraph) Don't be so quick on the draw to empty your Recycle Bin. Every time you compact all folders (see below), backups of all folders will be copied to Recycle Bin and can be used to restore any missing folders or data. See http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?p=135065; also see the Notes section of the following KB article for an explanation of sorts: All e-mail items may be missing when you start Outlook Express 6 Service Pack 1 [NB: Despite what the KB article might imply, you do NOT need to install KB918766!] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918069 To restore a BAK folder in the Recycle Bin to your store folder: 1. Tools Options Maintenance Store folder will reveal the location of your current Identity's store (http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#storemain). Write it down. [In WinXP, Win2K and Win2K03, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are marked as hidden by default. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders via Start Control Panel Folder Options View.] 2. In Windows Explorer, navigate to your store Click on the DBX file associated with the missing, or empty, folder (e.g., Inbox.dbx) and drag it to your desktop for safety's sake. 3. Minimize the store folder. 4. Open OE: - If the folder in question is missing, create a new folder with the same name as the one you want to restore (e.g., if the file to restore is Saved.bak, name the new folder Saved). Open the new folder (important!) and then close OE. - If the folder is still there (e.g., Saved.dbx) but just empty, continue to Step 5. 5. With OE closed, open the Recycle Bin and right-click on the BAK file you want to restore (e.g, Saved.bak) and select Restore. Now re-open your store folder and rename the file, replacing BAK with DBX (e.g., Saved.bak = Saved.dbx). 6. Close Windows Explorer, open OE and you should find your messages have been restored to the folder in question. 7. Assuming all is well, you may now delete the DBX file that you moved to the desktop in Step 2 above. If, however, the folder is still empty, run this recovery tool of MVP Steve Cochran's on the DBX file that you moved to the desktop in Step 2 above: DBXpress http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Avoiding Such Corruption in Futu - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is automatically compacting your message store. - Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) Happy wrote: No, there's not. But I do empty my recycle bin quite regularly. "PA Bear" wrote in message ... Let's say the folder's name is "Mail from Work". Open your Recycle Bin Do you find a file named "Mail from Work.bak"? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) Happy wrote: One of my folders containing a number of emails has disappeared from my "saved" folders. I have a back up on an external HD. Is it possible to retrieve just those? |
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