outlook express (lost the inbox and all emails in it)

Hi Could anyone possibly help me ime having trouble with outlook express
when i opened it up this morning it said i had an error with some file
and it could not open due to this so i then tried a second time which opened up but it has removed all my emails in the inbox which are very important it has not touched the drafts or sent folders only inbox it has done this before is there any possible way i can recover these emails that was in the inbox are there on my pc somewhere?

Julie

 

Hi Angel

Start-Search
Click Advanced options and check each of the below

Search system folders
Search Hidden files and folders
Search Subfolders

Then slide up to

Search for files or folders named

in the search box
type
inbox.*

then click search now

Report back the results.

mike

 

Outlook Express

It's very likely that your inbox still exists and that OE has created a new one because the original is corrupt - thus OE opens the new inbox which is of course empty. For a solution go to www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx where you will find an excellent article on File Corruption, which also describes a message recovery program, available on www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/dbx0722501x.zip for $5. I know it works 'cos I've just used it to recover emails from a corrupted Saved Items file.
Good luck!