Help I Deleted My Sent File By Mistake

Is there anyway to recover my sent file? I made a mistake and deleted it and then deleted the deleted items. Can I recover?
It was a large file and a record of my sent work.

Please help if you can.

Wiry

 

By the way, I'm using Win 98. I recently deleted my inbox and accidently deleted my sent box by mistake. So all those emails are deleted in there together. Is there a way to identify the sent emails from the received emails?

 

Did this happen when trying to fix your previous problem?
I think if you deleted your sent folder, then emptied your deleted folder, you won't be able to recover unless you have backed up your folders. Here's a link for OE that has lots of useful info. How to backup, etc..

 

I did fix the previous problem. But then my brain went into a crazymode and I accidently cleared the messages in the Sent folder and then deleted the deleted items from File Manager.

I still have the deleted items ... not in view, but on the hard drive.
My win 98 book says to delete the deleted items.ibx file ... which is an index file, then open it again and it will recreate the items that were last in the deleted items files provided you haven't compacted the files (which I haven't.)

My problem is that I can't find the ibx file ... just the dbx file. So I am stumped at this point. I made a copy of the deleted items.dbx just in case I delete it by mistake, but right now the deleted files are there ... I just need it to rebuild the deleted items file and I can transfer them back into the sent folder ... but I can't figure out where the .ibx file is. I have told the computer to view hidden files, so that isn't it. ANy help would be appreciated.

 

The instructions I just gave for finding the ibx file were for OE version that came with IEd3.

I am using OE 5. So I need to know what to do in this version.
If I delete the dbx file, all the messages will go with it.

 

Can you do a scanreg /restore to a time before you deleted it? It should restore it. Start-Shutdown -Restart in MS Dos -at the prompt type scanreg /restore. Chose a saved registry from up to five days ago. Good luck.

 

Thanks, I'll try that.

Wiry

 

While typing this, saw the scanreg/restore. Don't think this will recover deleted files.


Well I think your still out of luck. I searched two computers running Win98 with OE5 and 6. .ibx is not on either computer.
Searched MS site, saw where after version4.5, OE stores mail differently. It use to put the mail in several locations, after version 5, only one location. When you delete and empty the deleted folder, the mail index is cleaned, and that spot is marked as free space. Any new mail, or deleted mail writes overtop. Unless someone has other ideas, I don't think they're recoverable.

 

You're right ... no files appear with the scan disk idea. Registry can't return the files. I still think there's got to be a way because the delete items.dbx file has 132 mb in it. Need to know how to rebuild the delete items file.

 

The purpose of this mode is to recover messages that have been deleted from the deleted items folder.

Take alook here.

I've never used it, or know anyone who has. Let me know if it works..

 

asd - Sorry -- had a solution written out but on re-reading the thread, it didn't seem appropriate... ...head bounced on keyboard...

 

I don't know what asd means.

Thanks so much for the link that sent me to the dbxtract program.
It works ... kind of. Messages are not in perfect order, but I can retrieve most everything. I haven't copied it yet into Outlook Express, but in the folder that it's in, the titles are by subject.
So I'm hoping OE will put the receiver's name in the proper place.
We'll see ... but at least I've got some of the data back. Thanks so much. I'll let you know how it works. It's still downloading files.

 

Glad to hear you got some of them back. Keep me posted..

 

I was able to create a desktop folder and extract files by subject to that folder. Then the site told me to copy the files to a folder in outlook express. I haven't been able to figure out how to do that. There is an import program, but it will only allow me to import from another mail program. Any idea how I can get outlook to read the files? I might be able to sort by name instead of subject which would really help.

THanks again.

 

I think if you select, file, import, messages, then select OE5 or 6, then when it asks for specific location, select import mail from stored directory, then you should browse to the file where you recovered your messages. Again, I have never used this program, so just going on the readme file and OE.

 

Hi, Aleekat ~

I have used DBXtract and it works pretty well to recover between 75 to 99% of messages in lost/corrupted/deleted '.dbx' files.

 

Here's more news. The free program, dbxtract has a paid program for 30 bucks. It's called dbxtend. In dbxtend, you can organize the files the same way you can inside oe. So it's really worth it to me. I think this might solve all my problems. Just keep the old sent files in this program and look at them any way I want. I really want to thank you all a lot for helping me through this Saturday. Sunday will be a lot easier.

 

Your welcome. I learnt alot today too..

Take a look at the very first link I gave you. It has free programs to back up your system..