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Dunno whats happened!!
Hi All,
Pretty sure that all I did was choose Compact under ToolsOptionsMaintenanceClean Up, but what has happened is that I have lost all my folder structures under Inbox and my Newsgroups have changed massively and now only list a few of what I had and are listing some of what I unsubscribed to ages ago. Searching for *dbx identifies some of the groups that I have lost even though they are not appearing in OE. Basically its a mess! What is most important to me really I suppose, is my saved email messages, which still seem to be there even though the folder structure has changed. Would be nice to know what I might have done, but is there any way of easily recovering the situation or is a couple of hours sorting it all out? Cheers. Bill. |
Dunno whats happened!!
Tools | Options | Maintenance | Clean Up Now is for newsgroups and should
not have changed your user created folder structure. What you describe sounds more like you deleted Folders.dbx from the message store. Consequences of deleting Folders.dbx: http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#deldbx Although your file structure has changed, do you still have your e-mail messages in their respective folders? The folders can be easily dragged back where you want them, but you will have to resubscribe to newsgroups. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Bill" wrote in message ... Hi All, Pretty sure that all I did was choose Compact under ToolsOptionsMaintenanceClean Up, but what has happened is that I have lost all my folder structures under Inbox and my Newsgroups have changed massively and now only list a few of what I had and are listing some of what I unsubscribed to ages ago. Searching for *dbx identifies some of the groups that I have lost even though they are not appearing in OE. Basically its a mess! What is most important to me really I suppose, is my saved email messages, which still seem to be there even though the folder structure has changed. Would be nice to know what I might have done, but is there any way of easily recovering the situation or is a couple of hours sorting it all out? Cheers. Bill. |
Dunno whats happened!!
Bill wrote:
Hi All, Pretty sure that all I did was choose Compact under ToolsOptionsMaintenanceClean Up, but what has happened is that I have lost all my folder structures under Inbox and my Newsgroups have changed massively and now only list a few of what I had and are listing some of what I unsubscribed to ages ago. Searching for *dbx identifies some of the groups that I have lost even though they are not appearing in OE. Basically its a mess! What is most important to me really I suppose, is my saved email messages, which still seem to be there even though the folder structure has changed. Would be nice to know what I might have done, but is there any way of easily recovering the situation or is a couple of hours sorting it all out? Cheers. Bill. Sounds like you're using XP. Also sounds like you stepped on the compact process somehow with another app or interrupeted it yourself. Never do anything else while compact is in process. If you're up to date with hotfixes etc., your missing stuff should be sitting in the recycle bin. If not, it's likely gone. HTH Pop` -- -- How to Post a newsgroup question effectively: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q555375 |
Dunno whats happened!!
Thanks Bruce,
BTW using another device for this reply - problem is on a w2k PC. Looking at the dbx files I have some that are the same name but with (1) appended to the filename. Which dbx should I use? Is there anyway to inspect the dbx file? Cheers. Bill. "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Tools | Options | Maintenance | Clean Up Now is for newsgroups and should not have changed your user created folder structure. What you describe sounds more like you deleted Folders.dbx from the message store. Consequences of deleting Folders.dbx: http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#deldbx Although your file structure has changed, do you still have your e-mail messages in their respective folders? The folders can be easily dragged back where you want them, but you will have to resubscribe to newsgroups. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Bill" wrote in message ... Hi All, Pretty sure that all I did was choose Compact under ToolsOptionsMaintenanceClean Up, but what has happened is that I have lost all my folder structures under Inbox and my Newsgroups have changed massively and now only list a few of what I had and are listing some of what I unsubscribed to ages ago. Searching for *dbx identifies some of the groups that I have lost even though they are not appearing in OE. Basically its a mess! What is most important to me really I suppose, is my saved email messages, which still seem to be there even though the folder structure has changed. Would be nice to know what I might have done, but is there any way of easily recovering the situation or is a couple of hours sorting it all out? Cheers. Bill. |
Dunno whats happened!!
Sounds like you're using XP. Also sounds like you stepped on the compact process somehow with another app or interrupeted it yourself. Never do anything else while compact is in process. If you're up to date with hotfixes etc., your missing stuff should be sitting in the recycle bin. If not, it's likely gone. HTH Pop` -- -- How to Post a newsgroup question effectively: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q555375 Its a W2K PC. Nothing in the recycle bin! Up to date with all the fixes etc. I may well have done something else while compact was running!!! Cheers. Bill. |
Dunno whats happened!!
The dbx folders with a (1) after them should be the ones you are using now.
If you put the cursor over the file, you will see the date it was created or modified. If they are indeed the newer ones, you can delete the older ones. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Bill" wrote in message ... Thanks Bruce, BTW using another device for this reply - problem is on a w2k PC. Looking at the dbx files I have some that are the same name but with (1) appended to the filename. Which dbx should I use? Is there anyway to inspect the dbx file? Cheers. Bill. "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Tools | Options | Maintenance | Clean Up Now is for newsgroups and should not have changed your user created folder structure. What you describe sounds more like you deleted Folders.dbx from the message store. Consequences of deleting Folders.dbx: http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#deldbx Although your file structure has changed, do you still have your e-mail messages in their respective folders? The folders can be easily dragged back where you want them, but you will have to resubscribe to newsgroups. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Bill" wrote in message ... Hi All, Pretty sure that all I did was choose Compact under ToolsOptionsMaintenanceClean Up, but what has happened is that I have lost all my folder structures under Inbox and my Newsgroups have changed massively and now only list a few of what I had and are listing some of what I unsubscribed to ages ago. Searching for *dbx identifies some of the groups that I have lost even though they are not appearing in OE. Basically its a mess! What is most important to me really I suppose, is my saved email messages, which still seem to be there even though the folder structure has changed. Would be nice to know what I might have done, but is there any way of easily recovering the situation or is a couple of hours sorting it all out? Cheers. Bill. |
Dunno whats happened!!
Before you do this, are any of these files for mail folders? You didn't say
if you were missing any messages. If you are, they may be in the older dbx files. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... The dbx folders with a (1) after them should be the ones you are using now. If you put the cursor over the file, you will see the date it was created or modified. If they are indeed the newer ones, you can delete the older ones. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Bill" wrote in message ... Thanks Bruce, BTW using another device for this reply - problem is on a w2k PC. Looking at the dbx files I have some that are the same name but with (1) appended to the filename. Which dbx should I use? Is there anyway to inspect the dbx file? Cheers. Bill. "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Tools | Options | Maintenance | Clean Up Now is for newsgroups and should not have changed your user created folder structure. What you describe sounds more like you deleted Folders.dbx from the message store. Consequences of deleting Folders.dbx: http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#deldbx Although your file structure has changed, do you still have your e-mail messages in their respective folders? The folders can be easily dragged back where you want them, but you will have to resubscribe to newsgroups. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Bill" wrote in message ... Hi All, Pretty sure that all I did was choose Compact under ToolsOptionsMaintenanceClean Up, but what has happened is that I have lost all my folder structures under Inbox and my Newsgroups have changed massively and now only list a few of what I had and are listing some of what I unsubscribed to ages ago. Searching for *dbx identifies some of the groups that I have lost even though they are not appearing in OE. Basically its a mess! What is most important to me really I suppose, is my saved email messages, which still seem to be there even though the folder structure has changed. Would be nice to know what I might have done, but is there any way of easily recovering the situation or is a couple of hours sorting it all out? Cheers. Bill. |
Dunno whats happened!!
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). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. - 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) AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.org/ Bill wrote: Hi All, Pretty sure that all I did was choose Compact under ToolsOptionsMaintenanceClean Up, but what has happened is that I have lost all my folder structures under Inbox and my Newsgroups have changed massively and now only list a few of what I had and are listing some of what I unsubscribed to ages ago. Searching for *dbx identifies some of the groups that I have lost even though they are not appearing in OE. Basically its a mess! What is most important to me really I suppose, is my saved email messages, which still seem to be there even though the folder structure has changed. Would be nice to know what I might have done, but is there any way of easily recovering the situation or is a couple of hours sorting it all out? Cheers. Bill. |
Dunno whats happened!!
"Bill" wrote in message ... Hi All, Pretty sure that all I did was choose Compact under ToolsOptionsMaintenanceClean Up, but what has happened is that I have lost all my folder structures under Inbox and my Newsgroups have changed massively and now only list a few of what I had and are listing some of what I unsubscribed to ages ago. Searching for *dbx identifies some of the groups that I have lost even though they are not appearing in OE. Basically its a mess! What is most important to me really I suppose, is my saved email messages, which still seem to be there even though the folder structure has changed. Would be nice to know what I might have done, but is there any way of easily recovering the situation or is a couple of hours sorting it all out? Cheers. Bill. |
Dunno whats happened!!
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Tools | Options | Maintenance | Clean Up Now is for newsgroups and should not have changed your user created folder structure. What you describe sounds more like you deleted Folders.dbx from the message store. Consequences of deleting Folders.dbx: http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#deldbx Although your file structure has changed, do you still have your e-mail messages in their respective folders? The folders can be easily dragged back where you want them, but you will have to resubscribe to newsgroups. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Bill" wrote in message ... Hi All, Pretty sure that all I did was choose Compact under ToolsOptionsMaintenanceClean Up, but what has happened is that I have lost all my folder structures under Inbox and my Newsgroups have changed massively and now only list a few of what I had and are listing some of what I unsubscribed to ages ago. Searching for *dbx identifies some of the groups that I have lost even though they are not appearing in OE. Basically its a mess! What is most important to me really I suppose, is my saved email messages, which still seem to be there even though the folder structure has changed. Would be nice to know what I might have done, but is there any way of easily recovering the situation or is a couple of hours sorting it all out? Cheers. Bill. |
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