2006 e-mails disappeared
 

I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and now for
some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the 2005 ones if it
was the other way around I could live with it, but I had some stuff in the
2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I never deleted anything,
this is driving me crazy please give me a simplistic explanation how to fix
this please.....

2006 e-mails disappeared
 

Windows version? Were the 05 and 06 messages in separate folders, or the
same folder? Was OE compacting prior to the loss?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"janice" wrote in message
...
I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and now for
some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the 2005 ones if
it
was the other way around I could live with it, but I had some stuff in the
2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I never deleted
anything,
this is driving me crazy please give me a simplistic explanation how to
fix
this please.....

2006 e-mails disappeared
 

The 05 and 06 were in the same folder my inbox. yes oe did compact before the
loss. I notice it come up and I let it do it's thing. I realize now I
probably had way too much in there, if I knew this was going to happen I
would have been deleting some of it that I no longer needed. Now I am in the
predicament of loosing the most current stuff. I hope this can be fixed...
thanks for getting back to me so soon.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Windows version? Were the 05 and 06 messages in separate folders, or the
same folder? Was OE compacting prior to the loss?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"janice" wrote in message
...
I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and now for
some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the 2005 ones if
it
was the other way around I could live with it, but I had some stuff in the
2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I never deleted
anything,
this is driving me crazy please give me a simplistic explanation how to
fix
this please.....

2006 e-mails disappeared
 

Windows xp home edition version 5.1

2006 e-mails disappeared
 

Windows xp home edition version 5.1??? Never heard of it.
However............

The two most common reasons for what you describe is disruption of the
compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), and bloated
folders. More on that below.

Why Mail Disappears:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone

About File Corruption:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

Recovery tool:

DBXpress run in Disk Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

And see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

A general warning if you don't want to lose your messages in the futu

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.

And backup often.

Backup and Resto

http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/

http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"janice" wrote in message
...
The 05 and 06 were in the same folder my inbox. yes oe did compact before
the
loss. I notice it come up and I let it do it's thing. I realize now I
probably had way too much in there, if I knew this was going to happen I
would have been deleting some of it that I no longer needed. Now I am in
the
predicament of loosing the most current stuff. I hope this can be fixed...
thanks for getting back to me so soon.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Windows version? Were the 05 and 06 messages in separate folders, or the
same folder? Was OE compacting prior to the loss?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"janice" wrote in message
...
I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and now
for
some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the 2005 ones
if
it
was the other way around I could live with it, but I had some stuff in
the
2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I never deleted
anything,
this is driving me crazy please give me a simplistic explanation how to
fix
this please.....

2006 e-mails disappeared
 

Why it happens:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

Recovering data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DBXtract
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXtend (additional functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtend/Default.aspx

DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

OEX (OE Enhancement Program)
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Avoid 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 [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual
compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.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, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

janice wrote:
I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and now for
some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the 2005 ones if
it was the other way around I could live with it, but I had some stuff in
the 2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I never deleted
anything, this is driving me crazy please give me a simplistic
explanation how to fix this please.....

2006 e-mails disappeared
 

Bruce wrote on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:56:14 -0800:

Windows xp home edition version 5.1??? Never heard of it.

Windows XP is NT version 5.1, Windows 2000 is NT version 5.0. It's possible
that the system properties version shows 5.1, rather than something else
(like the "Version 2002" it shows on my XP Pro PC here).

Dan

2006 e-mails disappeared
 

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message

Windows xp home edition version 5.1??? Never heard of it.

Go to Start | Run and type winver

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

2006 e-mails disappeared
 

"janice" wrote in message

I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and
now for some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the
2005 ones if it was the other way around I could live with it, but I
had some stuff in the 2006 that is very important, how do I get it
back.. I never deleted anything, this is driving me crazy please give
me a simplistic explanation how to fix this please.....

Don't store messages in the Inbox. It is the folder most apt to be
corrupted. As soon as you read them move them to user created folders.
Then compact the Inbox regularly.

Go to Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder and write down where OE
is storing its data.
Close OE.
Go there with Windows Explorer and move (not copy) Inbox.dbx to an empty
Windows
folder. With Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3 it will be a hidden file.

You can use either of these tools to extract the messages from the old DBX
file:

DBXtract ($5): http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/ although this tool is faster
and better:
DBXpress: ($25) http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
Do NOT extract to the desktop!
With a large file this can take a long time, so let it keep running.

The messages can be dragged from a Windows folder back into an OE folder in
OE's Folder List.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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2006 e-mails disappeared
 

DOH!


"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote in message
...
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message

Windows xp home edition version 5.1??? Never heard of it.

Go to Start | Run and type winver

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/