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Hi Group;
Just happened, I lost all messages in my inbox from mid April '07 to this morning 11/16/07. Sent items file is still fine. Been having problems with OE the last few weeks. Sometimes it just stops working or messages are temporarily lost. I shut it down and restart the program and the all come back. That's not working now. I am running OE6 on a Windows XP-Pro machine. I have a POP server. Anything else anyone needs to know? let me know. Also, recently for the last 2 weeks or so, I have been getting the notice to compress. I haven't done that yet. Help.... Please.... Thanks, Paul |
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Why it happens:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and #4) and http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 (Notes section under Resolution) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality) 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. - Frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - 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) AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.org/ Oyster wrote: Hi Group; Just happened, I lost all messages in my inbox from mid April '07 to this morning 11/16/07. Sent items file is still fine. Been having problems with OE the last few weeks. Sometimes it just stops working or messages are temporarily lost. I shut it down and restart the program and the all come back. That's not working now. I am running OE6 on a Windows XP-Pro machine. I have a POP server. Anything else anyone needs to know? let me know. Also, recently for the last 2 weeks or so, I have been getting the notice to compress. I haven't done that yet. Help.... Please.... Thanks, Paul |
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![]() You might be interested in reading this article. See.......... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx Somebody will probably respond to your query directly. Ken "Oyster" wrote in message news ![]() | Hi Group; | Just happened, I lost all messages in my inbox from mid April '07 to this | morning 11/16/07. Sent items file is still fine. Been having problems | with OE the last few weeks. Sometimes it just stops working or messages are | temporarily lost. I shut it down and restart the program and the all come | back. That's not working now. I am running OE6 on a Windows XP-Pro | machine. I have a POP server. Anything else anyone needs to know? let me | know. Also, recently for the last 2 weeks or so, I have been getting the | notice to compress. I haven't done that yet. | | Help.... Please.... | Thanks, | Paul | | |
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Hi Group; Just happened, I lost all messages in my inbox from mid April '07 to this morning 11/16/07. Sent items file is still fine. Been having problems with OE the last few weeks. Sometimes it just stops working or messages are temporarily lost. I shut it down and restart the program and the all come back. That's not working now. I am running OE6 on a Windows XP-Pro machine. I have a POP server. Anything else anyone needs to know? let me know. Also, recently for the last 2 weeks or so, I have been getting the notice to compress. I haven't done that yet. Help.... Please.... Thanks, Paul Your Inbox got too big. Read the links already given for the reasons and fixes for it. You MUST compact your e-mail database now and then. It IS a database, and as such, requires compacting. Try it now and see if it works; it might not be too late to keep from losing all the e-mails if you're one of those types who don't back things up. OE defaults to, I think, asking to compress every 100 openings by default. You are way overdue by the sound of it. While you compact, do NOTHING else on the computer. Let it work alone. If you've kept your OS up to date, when you do compact, there is a backup kept in the Recyce Bin, just in case something does go wrong. I've never needed it, but I like knowing it's there if I forget and have other apps running when I do the compact. HTH Pop` |
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Reading the other posts below was very helpful to me because the same thing
happened to me yesterday... during compacting all folders my inbox got corrupted and I lost 6 months worth of messages. I looked in the recycle bin and found inbox.bak and restored it. It went to my IE6 store folder which I have set to my documents from tools options. In the IE6 store folder I renamed my corrupted inbox.dbx to old_inbox.dbx and renamed inbox.bak to inbox.dbx. This solved my problem and all the lost messages appeared up to the time inbox.bak was made. I then downloaded the latest messages from my server. I had to delete the file Pop3uidl.dbx so my POP 3 server would download all my hotmail files again. Later I removed old_inbox.dbx from the store folder and put it somewhere else just in case I need to extract some message from it in the future. Also from now on I will select in accounts/properties/advanced options to delete messages from server after 7 or 14 days. This will mean that a recent 7 or 14 day back up of messages will stay on the server for such emergencies. So if I back up my IE6 store folder every week I should be covered. Kind Regards Chris "Oyster" wrote: Hi Group; Just happened, I lost all messages in my inbox from mid April '07 to this morning 11/16/07. Sent items file is still fine. Been having problems with OE the last few weeks. Sometimes it just stops working or messages are temporarily lost. I shut it down and restart the program and the all come back. That's not working now. I am running OE6 on a Windows XP-Pro machine. I have a POP server. Anything else anyone needs to know? let me know. Also, recently for the last 2 weeks or so, I have been getting the notice to compress. I haven't done that yet. Help.... Please.... Thanks, Paul |
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Nice work, Chris.
General precautions for Outlook Express: Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupt. 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. After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while working *offline* and do it often. Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Backup & Resto http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ This is a great two click program: Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Chris" wrote in message ... Reading the other posts below was very helpful to me because the same thing happened to me yesterday... during compacting all folders my inbox got corrupted and I lost 6 months worth of messages. I looked in the recycle bin and found inbox.bak and restored it. It went to my IE6 store folder which I have set to my documents from tools options. In the IE6 store folder I renamed my corrupted inbox.dbx to old_inbox.dbx and renamed inbox.bak to inbox.dbx. This solved my problem and all the lost messages appeared up to the time inbox.bak was made. I then downloaded the latest messages from my server. I had to delete the file Pop3uidl.dbx so my POP 3 server would download all my hotmail files again. Later I removed old_inbox.dbx from the store folder and put it somewhere else just in case I need to extract some message from it in the future. Also from now on I will select in accounts/properties/advanced options to delete messages from server after 7 or 14 days. This will mean that a recent 7 or 14 day back up of messages will stay on the server for such emergencies. So if I back up my IE6 store folder every week I should be covered. Kind Regards Chris "Oyster" wrote: Hi Group; Just happened, I lost all messages in my inbox from mid April '07 to this morning 11/16/07. Sent items file is still fine. Been having problems with OE the last few weeks. Sometimes it just stops working or messages are temporarily lost. I shut it down and restart the program and the all come back. That's not working now. I am running OE6 on a Windows XP-Pro machine. I have a POP server. Anything else anyone needs to know? let me know. Also, recently for the last 2 weeks or so, I have been getting the notice to compress. I haven't done that yet. Help.... Please.... Thanks, Paul |
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Thanks for this useful information Bill. I certainly don't want to lose my
OE6 messages again in the future. I have turned off Norton e mail scanning. I have also turned off auto send and receive in case it accidentally coincides with compacting. At the moment my OE6 Store folder which I keep in My documents is about 1.7 Gbt and my inbox.dbx is about 1Gbt, Sent.dbx about 300Mbt. After reading the notes some questions come to mind I need some help with please. 1- The guidelines mention "Do not archive mail in default OE folders"...does this mean do not archive the OE6 store folder in the default location in Application data but somewhere else like my documents? Or does it mean make another folder in IE6 such as "Inbox back Up" and store them there regardless of where the folder is located? 2- Also the comments mention "Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.". As my default Inbox.dbx is 1 Gbt how would I reduce the size in practice? Is it better to make subfolders under the inbox eg inbox 2005, Inbox 2006, Inbox 2007 etc to reduce the size? Or should I use another method? Kind Regards Chris "Bruce Hagen" wrote: Nice work, Chris. General precautions for Outlook Express: Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupt. 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. After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while working *offline* and do it often. Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Backup & Resto http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ This is a great two click program: Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Chris" wrote in message ... Reading the other posts below was very helpful to me because the same thing happened to me yesterday... during compacting all folders my inbox got corrupted and I lost 6 months worth of messages. I looked in the recycle bin and found inbox.bak and restored it. It went to my IE6 store folder which I have set to my documents from tools options. In the IE6 store folder I renamed my corrupted inbox.dbx to old_inbox.dbx and renamed inbox.bak to inbox.dbx. This solved my problem and all the lost messages appeared up to the time inbox.bak was made. I then downloaded the latest messages from my server. I had to delete the file Pop3uidl.dbx so my POP 3 server would download all my hotmail files again. Later I removed old_inbox.dbx from the store folder and put it somewhere else just in case I need to extract some message from it in the future. Also from now on I will select in accounts/properties/advanced options to delete messages from server after 7 or 14 days. This will mean that a recent 7 or 14 day back up of messages will stay on the server for such emergencies. So if I back up my IE6 store folder every week I should be covered. Kind Regards Chris "Oyster" wrote: Hi Group; Just happened, I lost all messages in my inbox from mid April '07 to this morning 11/16/07. Sent items file is still fine. Been having problems with OE the last few weeks. Sometimes it just stops working or messages are temporarily lost. I shut it down and restart the program and the all come back. That's not working now. I am running OE6 on a Windows XP-Pro machine. I have a POP server. Anything else anyone needs to know? let me know. Also, recently for the last 2 weeks or so, I have been getting the notice to compress. I haven't done that yet. Help.... Please.... Thanks, Paul |
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Bruce, not Bill. wink
The size of the message store is not a problem. It is the dbx files themselves. The default folders, Inbox, Sent Items, etc., are more prone to corruption than user created folders because they are accessed more often. If your Inbox is 1GB, then I would start making more folders and moving these messages to them. We usually suggest a 1MB max, but you should be OK at 2MB especially if these are just for archiving, but 1GB is really asking for trouble. No need to go outside of OE unless you want to. Subfolders under the Inbox are fine, as well as Sent Items. Basically, the best practice when you get a message is to read it and either delete it or move it. Note that when you are done cleaning up these folders, you will need to compact again as space taken up by messages is not reclaimed when you move or delete them until you compact. Send and Receive can be left checked it you remember to work offline when you compact. That eliminates any new messages arriving. As you did, unchecking e-mail scanning is important with OE. Among other things, it has been responsible for wiping out entire message stores. I'll go one step further. You would be doing yourself a favor if you got rid of Norton completely. At the very least, think about doing it when your subscription expires. Norton and McAfee have a long history of corrupting OE. People can use it for years and then one day, usually after an update from Norton, all hell breaks loose. You can have a perfectly good anti-virus and save money at the same time. I would suggest either Avast, (freeware), or NOD32, (not free). In the case of Avast, choose Custom Installation and under Resident Protection, uncheck: Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange. (I use it myself). Avast: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html NOD32: http://www.eset.com/ Just out of curiosity, do you really read e-mail that is years old? I save some classic jokes and the like, but not much more. Right now, my Inbox and Sent Items are both less than 1,000KB and my entire message store is 246MB total. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Chris" wrote in message ... Thanks for this useful information Bill. I certainly don't want to lose my OE6 messages again in the future. I have turned off Norton e mail scanning. I have also turned off auto send and receive in case it accidentally coincides with compacting. At the moment my OE6 Store folder which I keep in My documents is about 1.7 Gbt and my inbox.dbx is about 1Gbt, Sent.dbx about 300Mbt. After reading the notes some questions come to mind I need some help with please. 1- The guidelines mention "Do not archive mail in default OE folders"...does this mean do not archive the OE6 store folder in the default location in Application data but somewhere else like my documents? Or does it mean make another folder in IE6 such as "Inbox back Up" and store them there regardless of where the folder is located? 2- Also the comments mention "Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.". As my default Inbox.dbx is 1 Gbt how would I reduce the size in practice? Is it better to make subfolders under the inbox eg inbox 2005, Inbox 2006, Inbox 2007 etc to reduce the size? Or should I use another method? Kind Regards Chris "Bruce Hagen" wrote: Nice work, Chris. General precautions for Outlook Express: Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupt. 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. After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while working *offline* and do it often. Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Backup & Resto http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ This is a great two click program: Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Chris" wrote in message ... Reading the other posts below was very helpful to me because the same thing happened to me yesterday... during compacting all folders my inbox got corrupted and I lost 6 months worth of messages. I looked in the recycle bin and found inbox.bak and restored it. It went to my IE6 store folder which I have set to my documents from tools options. In the IE6 store folder I renamed my corrupted inbox.dbx to old_inbox.dbx and renamed inbox.bak to inbox.dbx. This solved my problem and all the lost messages appeared up to the time inbox.bak was made. I then downloaded the latest messages from my server. I had to delete the file Pop3uidl.dbx so my POP 3 server would download all my hotmail files again. Later I removed old_inbox.dbx from the store folder and put it somewhere else just in case I need to extract some message from it in the future. Also from now on I will select in accounts/properties/advanced options to delete messages from server after 7 or 14 days. This will mean that a recent 7 or 14 day back up of messages will stay on the server for such emergencies. So if I back up my IE6 store folder every week I should be covered. Kind Regards Chris "Oyster" wrote: Hi Group; Just happened, I lost all messages in my inbox from mid April '07 to this morning 11/16/07. Sent items file is still fine. Been having problems with OE the last few weeks. Sometimes it just stops working or messages are temporarily lost. I shut it down and restart the program and the all come back. That's not working now. I am running OE6 on a Windows XP-Pro machine. I have a POP server. Anything else anyone needs to know? let me know. Also, recently for the last 2 weeks or so, I have been getting the notice to compress. I haven't done that yet. Help.... Please.... Thanks, Paul |
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Any folder that you create will be treated as a separate folder.
It doesn't have to be under another folder. -- Ronald Sommer "Chris" wrote in message ... Thanks for this useful information Bill. I certainly don't want to lose my OE6 messages again in the future. I have turned off Norton e mail scanning. I have also turned off auto send and receive in case it accidentally coincides with compacting. At the moment my OE6 Store folder which I keep in My documents is about 1.7 Gbt and my inbox.dbx is about 1Gbt, Sent.dbx about 300Mbt. After reading the notes some questions come to mind I need some help with please. 1- The guidelines mention "Do not archive mail in default OE folders"...does this mean do not archive the OE6 store folder in the default location in Application data but somewhere else like my documents? Or does it mean make another folder in IE6 such as "Inbox back Up" and store them there regardless of where the folder is located? 2- Also the comments mention "Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.". As my default Inbox.dbx is 1 Gbt how would I reduce the size in practice? Is it better to make subfolders under the inbox eg inbox 2005, Inbox 2006, Inbox 2007 etc to reduce the size? Or should I use another method? Kind Regards Chris "Bruce Hagen" wrote: Nice work, Chris. General precautions for Outlook Express: Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupt. 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. After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while working *offline* and do it often. Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Backup & Resto http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ This is a great two click program: Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Chris" wrote in message ... Reading the other posts below was very helpful to me because the same thing happened to me yesterday... during compacting all folders my inbox got corrupted and I lost 6 months worth of messages. I looked in the recycle bin and found inbox.bak and restored it. It went to my IE6 store folder which I have set to my documents from tools options. In the IE6 store folder I renamed my corrupted inbox.dbx to old_inbox.dbx and renamed inbox.bak to inbox.dbx. This solved my problem and all the lost messages appeared up to the time inbox.bak was made. I then downloaded the latest messages from my server. I had to delete the file Pop3uidl.dbx so my POP 3 server would download all my hotmail files again. Later I removed old_inbox.dbx from the store folder and put it somewhere else just in case I need to extract some message from it in the future. Also from now on I will select in accounts/properties/advanced options to delete messages from server after 7 or 14 days. This will mean that a recent 7 or 14 day back up of messages will stay on the server for such emergencies. So if I back up my IE6 store folder every week I should be covered. Kind Regards Chris "Oyster" wrote: Hi Group; Just happened, I lost all messages in my inbox from mid April '07 to this morning 11/16/07. Sent items file is still fine. Been having problems with OE the last few weeks. Sometimes it just stops working or messages are temporarily lost. I shut it down and restart the program and the all come back. That's not working now. I am running OE6 on a Windows XP-Pro machine. I have a POP server. Anything else anyone needs to know? let me know. Also, recently for the last 2 weeks or so, I have been getting the notice to compress. I haven't done that yet. Help.... Please.... Thanks, Paul |
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Thanks again Bruce for the very informative reply. I will certainly start to
put some of the suggestions into practice to protect my OE message store. I am also sure the information will be of use to others who have experienced similar problems. While its true I don't spend time reading old e mails bit its important for me to keep a large database to check some business or other important details in a message or attachment. Sometimes, I will find a useful piece of information that goes back many years. I understand there is a new free e mail programme - Microsoft "Windows Live Mail beta", however I really dont know if its message store is more stable or practical than OE6 or whether OE6 message stores can be imported so I am of the opinion to stick with OE6. Kind Regards Chris "Bruce Hagen" wrote: Bruce, not Bill. wink The size of the message store is not a problem. It is the dbx files themselves. The default folders, Inbox, Sent Items, etc., are more prone to corruption than user created folders because they are accessed more often. If your Inbox is 1GB, then I would start making more folders and moving these messages to them. We usually suggest a 1MB max, but you should be OK at 2MB especially if these are just for archiving, but 1GB is really asking for trouble. No need to go outside of OE unless you want to. Subfolders under the Inbox are fine, as well as Sent Items. Basically, the best practice when you get a message is to read it and either delete it or move it. Note that when you are done cleaning up these folders, you will need to compact again as space taken up by messages is not reclaimed when you move or delete them until you compact. Send and Receive can be left checked it you remember to work offline when you compact. That eliminates any new messages arriving. As you did, unchecking e-mail scanning is important with OE. Among other things, it has been responsible for wiping out entire message stores. I'll go one step further. You would be doing yourself a favor if you got rid of Norton completely. At the very least, think about doing it when your subscription expires. Norton and McAfee have a long history of corrupting OE. People can use it for years and then one day, usually after an update from Norton, all hell breaks loose. You can have a perfectly good anti-virus and save money at the same time. I would suggest either Avast, (freeware), or NOD32, (not free). In the case of Avast, choose Custom Installation and under Resident Protection, uncheck: Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange. (I use it myself). Avast: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html NOD32: http://www.eset.com/ Just out of curiosity, do you really read e-mail that is years old? I save some classic jokes and the like, but not much more. Right now, my Inbox and Sent Items are both less than 1,000KB and my entire message store is 246MB total. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Chris" wrote in message ... Thanks for this useful information Bill. I certainly don't want to lose my OE6 messages again in the future. I have turned off Norton e mail scanning. I have also turned off auto send and receive in case it accidentally coincides with compacting. At the moment my OE6 Store folder which I keep in My documents is about 1.7 Gbt and my inbox.dbx is about 1Gbt, Sent.dbx about 300Mbt. After reading the notes some questions come to mind I need some help with please. 1- The guidelines mention "Do not archive mail in default OE folders"...does this mean do not archive the OE6 store folder in the default location in Application data but somewhere else like my documents? Or does it mean make another folder in IE6 such as "Inbox back Up" and store them there regardless of where the folder is located? 2- Also the comments mention "Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.". As my default Inbox.dbx is 1 Gbt how would I reduce the size in practice? Is it better to make subfolders under the inbox eg inbox 2005, Inbox 2006, Inbox 2007 etc to reduce the size? Or should I use another method? Kind Regards Chris "Bruce Hagen" wrote: Nice work, Chris. General precautions for Outlook Express: Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupt. 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. After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while working *offline* and do it often. Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Backup & Resto http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ This is a great two click program: Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Chris" wrote in message ... Reading the other posts below was very helpful to me because the same thing happened to me yesterday... during compacting all folders my inbox got corrupted and I lost 6 months worth of messages. I looked in the recycle bin and found inbox.bak and restored it. It went to my IE6 store folder which I have set to my documents from tools options. In the IE6 store folder I renamed my corrupted inbox.dbx to old_inbox.dbx and renamed inbox.bak to inbox.dbx. This solved my problem and all the lost messages appeared up to the time inbox.bak was made. I then downloaded the latest messages from my server. I had to delete the file Pop3uidl.dbx so my POP 3 server would download all my hotmail files again. Later I removed old_inbox.dbx from the store folder and put it somewhere else just in case I need to extract some message from it in the future. Also from now on I will select in accounts/properties/advanced options to delete messages from server after 7 or 14 days. This will mean that a recent 7 or 14 day back up of messages will stay on the server for such emergencies. So if I back up my IE6 store folder every week I should be covered. Kind Regards Chris "Oyster" wrote: Hi Group; Just happened, I lost all messages in my inbox from mid April '07 to this morning 11/16/07. Sent items file is still fine. Been having problems with OE the last few weeks. Sometimes it just stops working or messages are temporarily lost. I shut it down and restart the program and the all come back. That's not working now. I am running OE6 on a Windows XP-Pro machine. I have a POP server. Anything else anyone needs to know? let me know. Also, recently for the last 2 weeks or so, I have been getting the notice to compress. I haven't done that yet. Help.... Please.... Thanks, Paul |
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