How to recover folders/messages lost while migrating to Outlook?

**selwyn** · October 5th 07, 11:58 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

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Recently I did an upgrade of Outlook Express and then migrated to
Outlook.
Now I find I have lost some important Folders/Messages. How do I
recover
them?

How did you do the "migration" to outlook?

I followed the Office Online instructions "Import your messages or
account
from Outlook Express to Outlook"

Unfortunately Office Online, as with so much of MS information, does not
comply with received wisdom. The preferred method for email is to export
FROM Outlook Express TO Outlook. One of the main reasons for this is that
Outlook uses the Modified date of items to perform certain functions,
(archiving amongst them), and using the Import function within Outlook
changes all the Modified dates to the date of import.

Try creating a new Outlook profile, and then in OE, exporting your email
to
that. Empty deleted Items Folder and do a "Compact All Folders" first,
before you do the export.

If that works, then use the new Profile and delete the old.

HTH

I am not sure if that will work, because I went back to my OE to check if
the missing Folders/Messages was still there and it wasn't!

Now I am not sure if
1. In the course of the migration it is still lying hidden somewhere
either
in OE or Express, or
2. It has got permanently deleted by mistake.

Also funnily I noticed that there are some Folders in My Documents which
are
not something I saved... They look like dbx files but I am not sure
because I
can't open them.

if you did a compact all folders and you are fully patched in OE then it
would have made a copy of all your folders in the Recycle Bin.
hat are the names of the folders in your Documents folder?

A Folder called Outlook Express Deleted Files, with 6 Files called for example "Shortcut to ------[name of the original Folder].dbx"

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