[RESOLVED] Recovering SOME emails in Outlook Express

[Cassel]

I was in the process of cleaning tons of emails in my Outlook Express, sorting them in the correct folders and such. Suddenly, the program froze and i had to close it. When i reopened it, i had lost all the emails from December and January from the Inbox only. The emails already in subfolders are ok. I tried restarting the OE, and it didn`t help. I tried rebooting; no result.

Now, i DO have automatic backup of my box every week through Acronis (yeah, i followed your advice froma while ago) but i wonder how i can retrieve those emails without simply overwriting the CURRENT set of emails in my Inbox.

Any simple way to do so?

[jdc2000]

You could try this:

http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

[Cassel]

Hum.. this is a paying program. I am not trying to recover LOST messages per say, but just to retrieve messages i have backed up on my computer.

Do you know if i could open my Inbox file into Incredimail for example??
Or create a different folder to move my current Inbox emails and then open the backed up Inbox file?

[Welshjim]

Cassel--There is an older, but still serviceable version of DBXtract here
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...scription.html
If you succeed in recovering messages (as .eml files) drag and drop them into the OE Preview Pane to get them back into OE.

[Cassel]

Well, what i did, (before i saw your other reply) is, i created a "temporary inbox" folder (i could not rename the actual Inbox) and i copied everything from the CURRENT inbox into that one. Then, i took my backed up Inbox.dbx and replaced the now empty inbox file. Worked fine.

Thanks anyways