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Old 01-28-2008, 09:00 AM
lavanis
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lost outlook express inbox messages

The messages in the inbox of outlook express 6.0 suddenly were lost. The
inbox.dbx file, however, remains very large but will only reveal a very small
fraction when trying to view email. This is the second time files were lost
in the viewing of email. I understand the inbox was of large size as files
were not deleted for some time.

How do I regain the full content of the inbox?
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Old 01-28-2008, 09:10 AM
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Re: lost outlook express inbox messages

"lavanis" <lavanis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC092F75-9078-4C85-A34F-CFD1691C75AC@microsoft.com...
> The messages in the inbox of outlook express 6.0 suddenly were lost. The
> inbox.dbx file, however, remains very large but will only reveal a very
> small
> fraction when trying to view email. This is the second time files were
> lost
> in the viewing of email. I understand the inbox was of large size as
> files
> were not deleted for some time.
>
> How do I regain the full content of the inbox?



Outlook EXPRESS is not part of Office.

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...xpress.general
Good luck!


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Bob Buckland ?:-\)
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Re: lost outlook express inbox messages

Hi Lavanis,

If when viewing the Inbox, using View=>Current view=>View all doesn't show all of the messages in the inbox doesn't help you may
want to use the link below to also post in the MS Outlook Express discussion group. The file may be corrupted (Outlook Express
isn't an Office app <g>).


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<<"lavanis" <lavanis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BC092F75-9078-4C85-A34F-CFD1691C75AC@microsoft.com...
The messages in the inbox of outlook express 6.0 suddenly were lost. The
inbox.dbx file, however, remains very large but will only reveal a very small
fraction when trying to view email. This is the second time files were lost
in the viewing of email. I understand the inbox was of large size as files
were not deleted for some time.

How do I regain the full content of the inbox?>>
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Please let us know if this has helped,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

>>*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends<<


LINKS
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...xpress.general
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/new...xpress.general

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/communit...s/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com



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Old 01-28-2008, 11:10 AM
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Re: lost outlook express inbox messages

lavanis wrote:
> The messages in the inbox of outlook express 6.0 suddenly were lost. The
> inbox.dbx file, however, remains very large but will only reveal a very small
> fraction when trying to view email. This is the second time files were lost
> in the viewing of email. I understand the inbox was of large size as files
> were not deleted for some time.
>
> How do I regain the full content of the inbox?


If it's over 200 MB, you're probably screwed. Download and install
Thunderbird and see if can import the messages for you and start using
that instead of Outhouse Distress. www.mozilla.com/thunderbird

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Old 01-28-2008, 11:30 PM
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Re: lost outlook express inbox messages


lavanis;3491132 Wrote:
> The messages in the inbox of outlook express 6.0 suddenly were lost.
> The
> inbox.dbx file, however, remains very large but will only reveal a very
> small
> fraction when trying to view email. This is the second time files were
> lost
> in the viewing of email. I understand the inbox was of large size as
> files
> were not deleted for some time.
>
> How do I regain the full content of the inbox?

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Outlook Express stores all emails into .dbx file on disk. As soon as a
.dbx file gets corrupted due to any hardware or software problem. There
is no way to access emails from corrupted .dbx file. To recover your
emails from corrupted .dbx files, there are many 'Outlook Express email
recovery' (http://www.stellarinfo.com/mail-recovery.htm) softwares
available. Outlook email recovery software scans extracts and saves
email massages into a new folder on the local drive.


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Re: lost outlook express inbox messages


Advise you-'outlook express corrupted'
(http://www.oemailrecovery.com/faq-re...ess.html),know
how repair Outlook Express and recover all corrupted message
folders,folders are visible but there are no messages in them, or if
you see that the list of messages in a folder is incorrect, then you'll
have to restore the messages from each one of the old dbx files , and
import them back into Outlook Express,allow recover corrupted Outlook
Express folders and save all recovered e-mails as .eml files.


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