I had 2 store folders, and wanted to switch from one to the other. Without
warning the folders in the Store Folder I wanted to switch to to were moved
to the other store folder I wanted to switch from, and deleted from their
former store folder. (The box asking to confirm if you wanted to move as
opposed to switch folders didn't appear in this case.) I cannot now get back
to the original email folders which seem lost without trace. Not in Recycle
Bin, not to be found with a .dbx search. Is their any way to get at the
"missing" files (which are my main email folders...). I have avoided
writing anything more to disk. Using W2K and OE6.

Ian

I'm not sure what you did, or why you had two store folders, but in Win2K,
dbx files are hidden, so include Hidden Files and Folders in your search.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"iag" wrote in message
...
I had 2 store folders, and wanted to switch from one to the other. Without
warning the folders in the Store Folder I wanted to switch to to were
moved
to the other store folder I wanted to switch from, and deleted from their
former store folder. (The box asking to confirm if you wanted to move as
opposed to switch folders didn't appear in this case.) I cannot now get
back
to the original email folders which seem lost without trace. Not in
Recycle
Bin, not to be found with a .dbx search. Is their any way to get at the
"missing" files (which are my main email folders...). I have avoided
writing anything more to disk. Using W2K and OE6.

Ian

I did include Hidden Files and Folders in the search, and only found some
ancient dbx files left, I suspect, by a previous user of the PC.

I have a "dummy" store folder which I wanted to use to check if an folder
import would work properly, before making the transfer to the "live" Store
Folder. So I now have the dummy, but not the live.

I thought I had simply made the normal folder switch, without deleting or
transferring the files, amd was suprised not not be asked the Yes/No/Cancel
questions - the transfer just went through immediately, and I had Explorer
open and saw the file transfers being made there. But so quick it certainly
appeared to be simply directory changes, and the data is presumably still,
somewhere, on disk.

Ian

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

I'm not sure what you did, or why you had two store folders, but in Win2K,
dbx files are hidden, so include Hidden Files and Folders in your search.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"iag" wrote in message
...
I had 2 store folders, and wanted to switch from one to the other. Without
warning the folders in the Store Folder I wanted to switch to to were
moved
to the other store folder I wanted to switch from, and deleted from their
former store folder. (The box asking to confirm if you wanted to move as
opposed to switch folders didn't appear in this case.) I cannot now get
back
to the original email folders which seem lost without trace. Not in
Recycle
Bin, not to be found with a .dbx search. Is their any way to get at the
"missing" files (which are my main email folders...). I have avoided
writing anything more to disk. Using W2K and OE6.

Ian

"Bruce Hagen" ëúá
.. .
I'm not sure what you did, or why you had two store folders, but in Win2K,
dbx files are hidden, so include Hidden Files and Folders in your search.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"iag" wrote in message
...
I had 2 store folders, and wanted to switch from one to the other.
Without
warning the folders in the Store Folder I wanted to switch to to were
moved
to the other store folder I wanted to switch from, and deleted from their
former store folder. (The box asking to confirm if you wanted to move as
opposed to switch folders didn't appear in this case.) I cannot now get
back
to the original email folders which seem lost without trace. Not in
Recycle
Bin, not to be found with a .dbx search. Is their any way to get at the
"missing" files (which are my main email folders...). I have avoided
writing anything more to disk. Using W2K and OE6.

Ian

I had 2 store folders, and wanted to switch from one to the other.

Not quite sure what you did, how you did it or what you wanted to accomplish
but see if the following helps:

How to move your store folder
http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#movestore
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org


iag wrote:
I had 2 store folders, and wanted to switch from one to the other.
Without warning the folders in the Store Folder I wanted to switch to to
were moved to the other store folder I wanted to switch from, and deleted
from their former store folder. (The box asking to confirm if you wanted
to move as opposed to switch folders didn't appear in this case.) I
cannot now get back to the original email folders which seem lost without
trace. Not in Recycle Bin, not to be found with a .dbx search. Is their
any way to get at the "missing" files (which are my main email
folders...). I have avoided writing anything more to disk. Using W2K
and OE6.

Ian

It sounds as if you overwrote some of the files.

The only chance for recovery at this point is DBXpress, which will scan the
entire hard drive looking for the messages. See www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/

steve

"iag" wrote in message
...
I did include Hidden Files and Folders in the search, and only found some
ancient dbx files left, I suspect, by a previous user of the PC.

I have a "dummy" store folder which I wanted to use to check if an folder
import would work properly, before making the transfer to the "live" Store
Folder. So I now have the dummy, but not the live.

I thought I had simply made the normal folder switch, without deleting or
transferring the files, amd was suprised not not be asked the
Yes/No/Cancel
questions - the transfer just went through immediately, and I had Explorer
open and saw the file transfers being made there. But so quick it
certainly
appeared to be simply directory changes, and the data is presumably still,
somewhere, on disk.

Ian

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

I'm not sure what you did, or why you had two store folders, but in
Win2K,
dbx files are hidden, so include Hidden Files and Folders in your search.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"iag" wrote in message
...
I had 2 store folders, and wanted to switch from one to the other.
Without
warning the folders in the Store Folder I wanted to switch to to were
moved
to the other store folder I wanted to switch from, and deleted from
their
former store folder. (The box asking to confirm if you wanted to move
as
opposed to switch folders didn't appear in this case.) I cannot now get
back
to the original email folders which seem lost without trace. Not in
Recycle
Bin, not to be found with a .dbx search. Is their any way to get at the
"missing" files (which are my main email folders...). I have avoided
writing anything more to disk. Using W2K and OE6.

Ian