As my OE6 was compacting messages automaticaly, my PC crashed. After re booting some important emails in certain folders disappeared. I did a system restore but to no avail. Is there anyway I may find and restore them please?
Thank you.
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As my OE6 was compacting messages automaticaly, my PC crashed. After re booting some important emails in certain folders disappeared. I did a system restore but to no avail. Is there anyway I may find and restore them please?
Thank you.
hmmm--A disruption while compacting can be deadly. OE messages are in .dbx files (like Inbox.dbx). If you are lucky you may find these messages in your Recycle Bin with names like Inbox.bak. See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918069/en-us
Another possibility is
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
Welshjim
Thank you for your reply along with the links. This is an another lesson to me to back up my files.
hmmm--Did either of my suggestions help?
Only last night I managed to recover all folders, apart from one which I am not worried about, by using DBXtract.
Appreciate it.
hmmm--Great news! Thanks for posting back.
Nothing much you can do when the PC crashes during OE compacting, but in the future, disconnect OE from the internet before compacting to minimize the chances of OE activity.
An article that may be of interest
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx