Outlook Express "compressed" mail - where did it go?

Sully

Hey,

My mother runs a B&B and takes most of her bookings over the internet, and stores them in folders for each month of the year (for the dates being booked) in Outlook Express 6. Today, the program asked her to compress her emails to save some space - she clicked "Yes" and it resulted in all her emails going "missing". None of the emails are showing up, and if I use MailNavigator it recognises the size of the folders are fairly large (by opening the .dbx file per folder) - but it to, does not show the emails contained in the folder.

How do I go about retriving the "hidden" emails? They seem to be there, as the folder size is still fairly large (espicaly Sent Items which is huge - but doesnt show any contents). I googled it and a NewsGroup for Outlook Express said I need to pay for an extractor to retrive the emails (See: http://groups.google.ie/group/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress/browse_thread/thread/bbe059aec80ac920/26895751f4357a4e%2326895751f4357a4e). Is there any alternative way, or will there suggested way actualy work for my problem?

Thanks for all the help, its appreciated.

Mr. Presentable

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23383;order,1;page,1;c,All%20Downloads/description.html

I found this, maybe it'd help

Sully

nipplenuts wrote:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23383;order,1;page,1;c,All%20Downloads/description.html

I found this, maybe it'd help

Nope, it says its extracting but never does extract anything

Sully

Hey,

In case anyone is looking for an answer, I was given one here (not that it really worked out, but still)::

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress/browse_thread/thread/79a398d67993ee99/bfd39d12d228eb18#bfd39d12d228eb18

Other related stuff::

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress/browse_thread/thread/61964c09885da651/462dc3d69ba033d6?

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress/browse_thread/thread/564209c6fd227c69/90c654471afefa11#90c654471afefa11

Hope its of use

majiktripp

Did it create a sperate folder in outlook express called acrhived mail by any chance?If you search your hard drive for *.dbx you should find all the data files that OE6 uses to store your mail.Back these up just incase anything further goes wrong.

Sully

majiktripp wrote:

Did it create a sperate folder in outlook express called acrhived mail by any chance?If you search your hard drive for *.dbx you should find all the data files that OE6 uses to store your mail.Back these up just incase anything further goes wrong.

The "Extract From Disk" option doesnt do that, which is a pitty. The Extract From File does - but it doesnt work on this level of dbx corruption.

Im going to take steps to prevent this happening again, including backups and moving to Mozilla Thunderbird.

MunsterCycling

Or maybe don't dig up 2 year old dead threads, die zombie thread...



MC