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January 17th 06, 12:09 AM
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OE6 in XPSP2 gone AWOL
Thanks Bruce, can he retrieve what's in that Inbox.dbx or are they lost?
(No idea how to do that). -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 Fully Updated P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR. "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Create a new identity and test it. Then backup your dbx files and restore them to the new identity. If all is well, you can go ahead and delete the old identity. Backup & Resto http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ A general warning: 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. -- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Peter" ex-brit AT rogers DOT com wrote in message ... A friend has this problem...his OE6 inbox has completely vanished. I tried sfc /scannow, repair installation of XP, but not sure how to go about using the Add/Remove Windows option to repair OE6. I tried it and it merely said installed OK and no repair option given. Still no inbox. I did locate an inbox.dbx somewhere in the machine. Any suggestions anyone? -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 Fully Updated P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR. 
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January 17th 06, 12:20 AM
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OE6 in XPSP2 gone AWOL
The messages are *probably* there. I was hoping they would show up when
restored in the new identity. Did you get that far yet? You can also try a File | Import | Messages and point to the old identity. That *may* work. Either way, if the messages don't show up, and the dbx file size indicates there are messages in there, then you would have to resort to a extracting tool. DBXtract: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx DBXpress has the best chance of recovery when run in disk mode: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Peter" ex-brit AT rogers DOT com wrote in message ... Thanks Bruce, can he retrieve what's in that Inbox.dbx or are they lost? (No idea how to do that). -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 Fully Updated P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR. "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Create a new identity and test it. Then backup your dbx files and restore them to the new identity. If all is well, you can go ahead and delete the old identity. Backup & Resto http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ A general warning: 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. -- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Peter" ex-brit AT rogers DOT com wrote in message ... A friend has this problem...his OE6 inbox has completely vanished. I tried sfc /scannow, repair installation of XP, but not sure how to go about using the Add/Remove Windows option to repair OE6. I tried it and it merely said installed OK and no repair option given. Still no inbox. I did locate an inbox.dbx somewhere in the machine. Any suggestions anyone? -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 Fully Updated P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR.
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January 17th 06, 12:21 AM
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OE6 in XPSP2 gone AWOL
I'm not on site. Will be back there tomorrow I hope.
-- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 Fully Updated P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR. "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... The messages are *probably* there. I was hoping they would show up when restored in the new identity. Did you get that far yet? You can also try a File | Import | Messages and point to the old identity. That *may* work. Either way, if the messages don't show up, and the dbx file size indicates there are messages in there, then you would have to resort to a extracting tool. DBXtract: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx DBXpress has the best chance of recovery when run in disk mode: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Peter" ex-brit AT rogers DOT com wrote in message ... Thanks Bruce, can he retrieve what's in that Inbox.dbx or are they lost? (No idea how to do that). -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 Fully Updated P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR. "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Create a new identity and test it. Then backup your dbx files and restore them to the new identity. If all is well, you can go ahead and delete the old identity. Backup & Resto http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ A general warning: 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. -- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Peter" ex-brit AT rogers DOT com wrote in message ... A friend has this problem...his OE6 inbox has completely vanished. I tried sfc /scannow, repair installation of XP, but not sure how to go about using the Add/Remove Windows option to repair OE6. I tried it and it merely said installed OK and no repair option given. Still no inbox. I did locate an inbox.dbx somewhere in the machine. Any suggestions anyone? -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 Fully Updated P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR.
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January 17th 06, 10:41 AM
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OE6 in XPSP2 gone AWOL
Make sure you enable showing hidden files under Explorer | Tools | Options |
View and then do the search, but choose Advanced Search and choose to include hidden files. You should find it then. steve "Peter" ex-brit AT rogers DOT com wrote in message ... I'm not on site. Will be back there tomorrow I hope. -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 Fully Updated P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR. "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... The messages are *probably* there. I was hoping they would show up when restored in the new identity. Did you get that far yet? You can also try a File | Import | Messages and point to the old identity. That *may* work. Either way, if the messages don't show up, and the dbx file size indicates there are messages in there, then you would have to resort to a extracting tool. DBXtract: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx DBXpress has the best chance of recovery when run in disk mode: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Peter" ex-brit AT rogers DOT com wrote in message ... Thanks Bruce, can he retrieve what's in that Inbox.dbx or are they lost? (No idea how to do that). -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 Fully Updated P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR. "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Create a new identity and test it. Then backup your dbx files and restore them to the new identity. If all is well, you can go ahead and delete the old identity. Backup & Resto http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ A general warning: 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. -- Bruce Hagen MS MVP - Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Peter" ex-brit AT rogers DOT com wrote in message ... A friend has this problem...his OE6 inbox has completely vanished. I tried sfc /scannow, repair installation of XP, but not sure how to go about using the Add/Remove Windows option to repair OE6. I tried it and it merely said installed OK and no repair option given. Still no inbox. I did locate an inbox.dbx somewhere in the machine. Any suggestions anyone? -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 Fully Updated P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 360gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR.
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