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I have no idea what could have happened if there is not another directory of
dbx files there somewhere. For the address book search for *~* and see what you find and rename whatever to give it a wab file extension and then see if the contacts are there. For the messages, you might check first the Recycle bin for bak files that are backups of the dbx files that you may be able to restore (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Otherwise, I think your only shot is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) which will bypass the file system and analyze the all the disk clusters on the drive and if the messages are still there, it will recover them. But there is no way of knowing if they are there without running the program. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... There are no signs of any other dbx files on the system. I have Kapsersky Anti-Virus - anti-Spam - I have turned this off for now - Any other ideas? Thanks, "Steve Cochran" wrote: It sounds as if you lost the entire user profile, or at least you lost the previous message store location. I would do an Advanced Search for *.dbx and include hidden files and folders under the Advanced search parameters. Make sure also you have in Explorer, Tools | Folder Options | View and uncheck the option to hide extensions of known file types and to show hidden files and perhaps even protected and OS files. That way you will see them if they are there. If you find a directory of dbx files that are not the current ones, then you can try File | Import | Messages to get them into the current message store. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Following the last Windows Update all my email messages and contacts have been lost Am Using Win XP with Auto updates turned on My desktop picture also disappeared and now the desktop is a plain blue colour and When I look in the message store Userlocal settingsapplication data identities?{91D2DB82-1315-4914-B477-BAD761E79D3A}Microsoft Outlook Express I just have the default and empty dbx files - all my many folders etc. have gone. I tried system restore to before the update and nothing has re-appeared. Where could my email messages/contacts have gone? Thanks Bobby |
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Hi Thanks,
I have found lost so .bak files in the recycle bin - is there an easy way to restore these? Or should I use the DBXpress software? Bobby "Steve Cochran" wrote: I have no idea what could have happened if there is not another directory of dbx files there somewhere. For the address book search for *~* and see what you find and rename whatever to give it a wab file extension and then see if the contacts are there. For the messages, you might check first the Recycle bin for bak files that are backups of the dbx files that you may be able to restore (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Otherwise, I think your only shot is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) which will bypass the file system and analyze the all the disk clusters on the drive and if the messages are still there, it will recover them. But there is no way of knowing if they are there without running the program. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... There are no signs of any other dbx files on the system. I have Kapsersky Anti-Virus - anti-Spam - I have turned this off for now - Any other ideas? Thanks, "Steve Cochran" wrote: It sounds as if you lost the entire user profile, or at least you lost the previous message store location. I would do an Advanced Search for *.dbx and include hidden files and folders under the Advanced search parameters. Make sure also you have in Explorer, Tools | Folder Options | View and uncheck the option to hide extensions of known file types and to show hidden files and perhaps even protected and OS files. That way you will see them if they are there. If you find a directory of dbx files that are not the current ones, then you can try File | Import | Messages to get them into the current message store. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Following the last Windows Update all my email messages and contacts have been lost Am Using Win XP with Auto updates turned on My desktop picture also disappeared and now the desktop is a plain blue colour and When I look in the message store Userlocal settingsapplication data identities?{91D2DB82-1315-4914-B477-BAD761E79D3A}Microsoft Outlook Express I just have the default and empty dbx files - all my many folders etc. have gone. I tried system restore to before the update and nothing has re-appeared. Where could my email messages/contacts have gone? Thanks Bobby |
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See the following and read Bruce Hagen's answer to your question
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...=en-us&m=1&p=1 -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Bobby" wrote in message ... Hi Thanks, I have found lost so .bak files in the recycle bin - is there an easy way to restore these? Or should I use the DBXpress software? Bobby "Steve Cochran" wrote: I have no idea what could have happened if there is not another directory of dbx files there somewhere. For the address book search for *~* and see what you find and rename whatever to give it a wab file extension and then see if the contacts are there. For the messages, you might check first the Recycle bin for bak files that are backups of the dbx files that you may be able to restore (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Otherwise, I think your only shot is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) which will bypass the file system and analyze the all the disk clusters on the drive and if the messages are still there, it will recover them. But there is no way of knowing if they are there without running the program. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... There are no signs of any other dbx files on the system. I have Kapsersky Anti-Virus - anti-Spam - I have turned this off for now - Any other ideas? Thanks, "Steve Cochran" wrote: It sounds as if you lost the entire user profile, or at least you lost the previous message store location. I would do an Advanced Search for *.dbx and include hidden files and folders under the Advanced search parameters. Make sure also you have in Explorer, Tools | Folder Options | View and uncheck the option to hide extensions of known file types and to show hidden files and perhaps even protected and OS files. That way you will see them if they are there. If you find a directory of dbx files that are not the current ones, then you can try File | Import | Messages to get them into the current message store. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Following the last Windows Update all my email messages and contacts have been lost Am Using Win XP with Auto updates turned on My desktop picture also disappeared and now the desktop is a plain blue colour and When I look in the message store Userlocal settingsapplication data identities?{91D2DB82-1315-4914-B477-BAD761E79D3A}Microsoft Outlook Express I just have the default and empty dbx files - all my many folders etc. have gone. I tried system restore to before the update and nothing has re-appeared. Where could my email messages/contacts have gone? Thanks Bobby |
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All e-mail items may be missing when you start Outlook Express 6 Service
Pack 1: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918069 To restore a bak folder to the message store folder, first locate the Message Store in Windows Explorer. In OE: Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise, write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer. In WinXP, the dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | View. In Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the missing, or empty, folder and drag it to the Desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the Message Store. Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the *exact* same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. Eg: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named Saved. Open the new folder and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue on to the next step. First, check if there is a bak file already in the message store. If there is, and you removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it to dbx. If it isn't already in the message store, open the Recycle bin and right click on the bak file for the folder in question and click Restore. Open the message store back up and change the file extension from .bak to .dbx. Close the message store and open OE. The messages should now be back in the folder. If the messages are successfully restored, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the Desktop. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "Bobby" wrote in message ... Hi Thanks, I have found lost so .bak files in the recycle bin - is there an easy way to restore these? Or should I use the DBXpress software? Bobby "Steve Cochran" wrote: I have no idea what could have happened if there is not another directory of dbx files there somewhere. For the address book search for *~* and see what you find and rename whatever to give it a wab file extension and then see if the contacts are there. For the messages, you might check first the Recycle bin for bak files that are backups of the dbx files that you may be able to restore (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Otherwise, I think your only shot is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) which will bypass the file system and analyze the all the disk clusters on the drive and if the messages are still there, it will recover them. But there is no way of knowing if they are there without running the program. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... There are no signs of any other dbx files on the system. I have Kapsersky Anti-Virus - anti-Spam - I have turned this off for now - Any other ideas? Thanks, "Steve Cochran" wrote: It sounds as if you lost the entire user profile, or at least you lost the previous message store location. I would do an Advanced Search for *.dbx and include hidden files and folders under the Advanced search parameters. Make sure also you have in Explorer, Tools | Folder Options | View and uncheck the option to hide extensions of known file types and to show hidden files and perhaps even protected and OS files. That way you will see them if they are there. If you find a directory of dbx files that are not the current ones, then you can try File | Import | Messages to get them into the current message store. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Following the last Windows Update all my email messages and contacts have been lost Am Using Win XP with Auto updates turned on My desktop picture also disappeared and now the desktop is a plain blue colour and When I look in the message store Userlocal settingsapplication data identities?{91D2DB82-1315-4914-B477-BAD761E79D3A}Microsoft Outlook Express I just have the default and empty dbx files - all my many folders etc. have gone. I tried system restore to before the update and nothing has re-appeared. Where could my email messages/contacts have gone? Thanks Bobby |
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You can also restore the bak file and import it under a different name using
the method to import individual dbx files (www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1) and just rename the bak file the dbx filename. If that fails to restore the messages then the only shot you have is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Hi Thanks, I have found lost so .bak files in the recycle bin - is there an easy way to restore these? Or should I use the DBXpress software? Bobby "Steve Cochran" wrote: I have no idea what could have happened if there is not another directory of dbx files there somewhere. For the address book search for *~* and see what you find and rename whatever to give it a wab file extension and then see if the contacts are there. For the messages, you might check first the Recycle bin for bak files that are backups of the dbx files that you may be able to restore (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Otherwise, I think your only shot is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) which will bypass the file system and analyze the all the disk clusters on the drive and if the messages are still there, it will recover them. But there is no way of knowing if they are there without running the program. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... There are no signs of any other dbx files on the system. I have Kapsersky Anti-Virus - anti-Spam - I have turned this off for now - Any other ideas? Thanks, "Steve Cochran" wrote: It sounds as if you lost the entire user profile, or at least you lost the previous message store location. I would do an Advanced Search for *.dbx and include hidden files and folders under the Advanced search parameters. Make sure also you have in Explorer, Tools | Folder Options | View and uncheck the option to hide extensions of known file types and to show hidden files and perhaps even protected and OS files. That way you will see them if they are there. If you find a directory of dbx files that are not the current ones, then you can try File | Import | Messages to get them into the current message store. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Following the last Windows Update all my email messages and contacts have been lost Am Using Win XP with Auto updates turned on My desktop picture also disappeared and now the desktop is a plain blue colour and When I look in the message store Userlocal settingsapplication data identities?{91D2DB82-1315-4914-B477-BAD761E79D3A}Microsoft Outlook Express I just have the default and empty dbx files - all my many folders etc. have gone. I tried system restore to before the update and nothing has re-appeared. Where could my email messages/contacts have gone? Thanks Bobby |
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See the following and read Bruce Hagen's answer to your question
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...=en-us&m=1&p=1 -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Bobby" wrote in message ... Hi Thanks, I have found lost so .bak files in the recycle bin - is there an easy way to restore these? Or should I use the DBXpress software? Bobby "Steve Cochran" wrote: I have no idea what could have happened if there is not another directory of dbx files there somewhere. For the address book search for *~* and see what you find and rename whatever to give it a wab file extension and then see if the contacts are there. For the messages, you might check first the Recycle bin for bak files that are backups of the dbx files that you may be able to restore (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Otherwise, I think your only shot is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) which will bypass the file system and analyze the all the disk clusters on the drive and if the messages are still there, it will recover them. But there is no way of knowing if they are there without running the program. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... There are no signs of any other dbx files on the system. I have Kapsersky Anti-Virus - anti-Spam - I have turned this off for now - Any other ideas? Thanks, "Steve Cochran" wrote: It sounds as if you lost the entire user profile, or at least you lost the previous message store location. I would do an Advanced Search for *.dbx and include hidden files and folders under the Advanced search parameters. Make sure also you have in Explorer, Tools | Folder Options | View and uncheck the option to hide extensions of known file types and to show hidden files and perhaps even protected and OS files. That way you will see them if they are there. If you find a directory of dbx files that are not the current ones, then you can try File | Import | Messages to get them into the current message store. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Following the last Windows Update all my email messages and contacts have been lost Am Using Win XP with Auto updates turned on My desktop picture also disappeared and now the desktop is a plain blue colour and When I look in the message store Userlocal settingsapplication data identities?{91D2DB82-1315-4914-B477-BAD761E79D3A}Microsoft Outlook Express I just have the default and empty dbx files - all my many folders etc. have gone. I tried system restore to before the update and nothing has re-appeared. Where could my email messages/contacts have gone? Thanks Bobby |
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All e-mail items may be missing when you start Outlook Express 6 Service
Pack 1: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918069 To restore a bak folder to the message store folder, first locate the Message Store in Windows Explorer. In OE: Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise, write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer. In WinXP, the dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | View. In Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the missing, or empty, folder and drag it to the Desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the Message Store. Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the *exact* same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. Eg: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named Saved. Open the new folder and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue on to the next step. First, check if there is a bak file already in the message store. If there is, and you removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it to dbx. If it isn't already in the message store, open the Recycle bin and right click on the bak file for the folder in question and click Restore. Open the message store back up and change the file extension from .bak to .dbx. Close the message store and open OE. The messages should now be back in the folder. If the messages are successfully restored, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the Desktop. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "Bobby" wrote in message ... Hi Thanks, I have found lost so .bak files in the recycle bin - is there an easy way to restore these? Or should I use the DBXpress software? Bobby "Steve Cochran" wrote: I have no idea what could have happened if there is not another directory of dbx files there somewhere. For the address book search for *~* and see what you find and rename whatever to give it a wab file extension and then see if the contacts are there. For the messages, you might check first the Recycle bin for bak files that are backups of the dbx files that you may be able to restore (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Otherwise, I think your only shot is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) which will bypass the file system and analyze the all the disk clusters on the drive and if the messages are still there, it will recover them. But there is no way of knowing if they are there without running the program. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... There are no signs of any other dbx files on the system. I have Kapsersky Anti-Virus - anti-Spam - I have turned this off for now - Any other ideas? Thanks, "Steve Cochran" wrote: It sounds as if you lost the entire user profile, or at least you lost the previous message store location. I would do an Advanced Search for *.dbx and include hidden files and folders under the Advanced search parameters. Make sure also you have in Explorer, Tools | Folder Options | View and uncheck the option to hide extensions of known file types and to show hidden files and perhaps even protected and OS files. That way you will see them if they are there. If you find a directory of dbx files that are not the current ones, then you can try File | Import | Messages to get them into the current message store. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Following the last Windows Update all my email messages and contacts have been lost Am Using Win XP with Auto updates turned on My desktop picture also disappeared and now the desktop is a plain blue colour and When I look in the message store Userlocal settingsapplication data identities?{91D2DB82-1315-4914-B477-BAD761E79D3A}Microsoft Outlook Express I just have the default and empty dbx files - all my many folders etc. have gone. I tried system restore to before the update and nothing has re-appeared. Where could my email messages/contacts have gone? Thanks Bobby |
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You can also restore the bak file and import it under a different name using
the method to import individual dbx files (www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1) and just rename the bak file the dbx filename. If that fails to restore the messages then the only shot you have is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Hi Thanks, I have found lost so .bak files in the recycle bin - is there an easy way to restore these? Or should I use the DBXpress software? Bobby "Steve Cochran" wrote: I have no idea what could have happened if there is not another directory of dbx files there somewhere. For the address book search for *~* and see what you find and rename whatever to give it a wab file extension and then see if the contacts are there. For the messages, you might check first the Recycle bin for bak files that are backups of the dbx files that you may be able to restore (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Otherwise, I think your only shot is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) which will bypass the file system and analyze the all the disk clusters on the drive and if the messages are still there, it will recover them. But there is no way of knowing if they are there without running the program. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... There are no signs of any other dbx files on the system. I have Kapsersky Anti-Virus - anti-Spam - I have turned this off for now - Any other ideas? Thanks, "Steve Cochran" wrote: It sounds as if you lost the entire user profile, or at least you lost the previous message store location. I would do an Advanced Search for *.dbx and include hidden files and folders under the Advanced search parameters. Make sure also you have in Explorer, Tools | Folder Options | View and uncheck the option to hide extensions of known file types and to show hidden files and perhaps even protected and OS files. That way you will see them if they are there. If you find a directory of dbx files that are not the current ones, then you can try File | Import | Messages to get them into the current message store. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Following the last Windows Update all my email messages and contacts have been lost Am Using Win XP with Auto updates turned on My desktop picture also disappeared and now the desktop is a plain blue colour and When I look in the message store Userlocal settingsapplication data identities?{91D2DB82-1315-4914-B477-BAD761E79D3A}Microsoft Outlook Express I just have the default and empty dbx files - all my many folders etc. have gone. I tried system restore to before the update and nothing has re-appeared. Where could my email messages/contacts have gone? Thanks Bobby |
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Hi Thanks,
I have found lost so .bak files in the recycle bin - is there an easy way to restore these? Or should I use the DBXpress software? Bobby "Steve Cochran" wrote: I have no idea what could have happened if there is not another directory of dbx files there somewhere. For the address book search for *~* and see what you find and rename whatever to give it a wab file extension and then see if the contacts are there. For the messages, you might check first the Recycle bin for bak files that are backups of the dbx files that you may be able to restore (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Otherwise, I think your only shot is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) which will bypass the file system and analyze the all the disk clusters on the drive and if the messages are still there, it will recover them. But there is no way of knowing if they are there without running the program. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... There are no signs of any other dbx files on the system. I have Kapsersky Anti-Virus - anti-Spam - I have turned this off for now - Any other ideas? Thanks, "Steve Cochran" wrote: It sounds as if you lost the entire user profile, or at least you lost the previous message store location. I would do an Advanced Search for *.dbx and include hidden files and folders under the Advanced search parameters. Make sure also you have in Explorer, Tools | Folder Options | View and uncheck the option to hide extensions of known file types and to show hidden files and perhaps even protected and OS files. That way you will see them if they are there. If you find a directory of dbx files that are not the current ones, then you can try File | Import | Messages to get them into the current message store. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Following the last Windows Update all my email messages and contacts have been lost Am Using Win XP with Auto updates turned on My desktop picture also disappeared and now the desktop is a plain blue colour and When I look in the message store Userlocal settingsapplication data identities?{91D2DB82-1315-4914-B477-BAD761E79D3A}Microsoft Outlook Express I just have the default and empty dbx files - all my many folders etc. have gone. I tried system restore to before the update and nothing has re-appeared. Where could my email messages/contacts have gone? Thanks Bobby |
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I have no idea what could have happened if there is not another directory of
dbx files there somewhere. For the address book search for *~* and see what you find and rename whatever to give it a wab file extension and then see if the contacts are there. For the messages, you might check first the Recycle bin for bak files that are backups of the dbx files that you may be able to restore (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Otherwise, I think your only shot is the extract from disk feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) which will bypass the file system and analyze the all the disk clusters on the drive and if the messages are still there, it will recover them. But there is no way of knowing if they are there without running the program. steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... There are no signs of any other dbx files on the system. I have Kapsersky Anti-Virus - anti-Spam - I have turned this off for now - Any other ideas? Thanks, "Steve Cochran" wrote: It sounds as if you lost the entire user profile, or at least you lost the previous message store location. I would do an Advanced Search for *.dbx and include hidden files and folders under the Advanced search parameters. Make sure also you have in Explorer, Tools | Folder Options | View and uncheck the option to hide extensions of known file types and to show hidden files and perhaps even protected and OS files. That way you will see them if they are there. If you find a directory of dbx files that are not the current ones, then you can try File | Import | Messages to get them into the current message store. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 steve "Bobby" wrote in message ... Following the last Windows Update all my email messages and contacts have been lost Am Using Win XP with Auto updates turned on My desktop picture also disappeared and now the desktop is a plain blue colour and When I look in the message store Userlocal settingsapplication data identities?{91D2DB82-1315-4914-B477-BAD761E79D3A}Microsoft Outlook Express I just have the default and empty dbx files - all my many folders etc. have gone. I tried system restore to before the update and nothing has re-appeared. Where could my email messages/contacts have gone? Thanks Bobby |
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