lostmailbox OE 6 on WIN982nd ed

Hi All, recently added launcher to my basic email and IE, The ISP assuring me that using the launcher would automatically seach for quietist lines, to speed things up. Unfortunately this reset my outlook express, back to 0. all addresses are there in shared contacts. but inbox and out box are empty. have these files really gone , or can i re instate them. Not many important things there but one two, about a years worth of stuff.

ken

 

I'm not familiar with "launcher" but here's how to find out if it emptied all your email folders.

Outlook Express keeps mail in several .dbx files...inbox.dbx, sent item.dbx, etc. Do a search for "*.dbx" (with the asterisk, without the quotes) and it will find them all. Then it's just a matter of identifying which are the ones with all your mail in them. Check the sizes of the files. If you had one particular folder with a lot of stuff in it, it will be considerably larger. That will be the folder where your old dbx files are...make a note of which one it is.

Then, in Outlook Express, go to File>Import>Messages, step through the wizard, pointing it to the folder where your messages are to import from.

 

Follow Miz' suggestions, and then---------->

Though your present boxes will have the .dbx ending, older ones may have been renamed. Search for *.db* , too. Put these files in a separate folder by themselves and rename them so that they have the .dbx ending. Put copies of your present .dbx files in the folder. (You may need to rename some of them if the old files and the new have the same name, but it doesn't matter what you call them--they still contain the mails and if they have the .dbx ending, you can still recover the contents.)

Use DBextract to get the emails from the file:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/DBXtract.zip

For future use, the OE Backup tool:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/OEBackupfull.zip