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From: Marc on 9 Jun 2010 22:59 my msgs in my inbox disappeared. i have windows 2000. can someone help me, pls. thanks.
From: Bruce Hagen on 9 Jun 2010 23:25 The two most common reasons for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More on that below. Why Mail Disappears http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone About File Corruption http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx DBXpress run in Extract From Disk Mode is the best chance to recover messages: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx And see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 A general warning to help avoid this in the future: Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible. Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And backup often. Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware) http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "Marc" <Marc(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3530197E-A359-4809-9CFB-FBB41E6FEB23(a)microsoft.com... > > my msgs in my inbox disappeared. i have windows 2000. can someone > help me, > pls. thanks.
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 10 Jun 2010 02:26 Why it happens: http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and #4). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality than DBXtract) http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Avoiding Such Corruption in Future: - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting is taking place. - Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause corruption (i.e., loss of messages) and provides no additional protection: Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 Marc wrote: > my msgs in my inbox disappeared. i have windows 2000. can someone help > me, pls. thanks.
From: Steve Cochran on 10 Jun 2010 08:17 Check your Recycle bin for a bak file that corresponds to the inbox. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 If that doesn't help, then you will likely need DBXpress and its extract from disk feature (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/). steve "Marc" <Marc(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3530197E-A359-4809-9CFB-FBB41E6FEB23(a)microsoft.com... > my msgs in my inbox disappeared. i have windows 2000. can someone help me, > pls. thanks.
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 10 Jun 2010 09:48
In Win2000? I don't think so... <w> Steve Cochran wrote: > Check your Recycle bin for a bak file that corresponds to the inbox. See > www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 If that doesn't help, then you will likely > need DBXpress and its extract from disk feature > (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/). > > steve > > "Marc" <Marc(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:3530197E-A359-4809-9CFB-FBB41E6FEB23(a)microsoft.com... >> my msgs in my inbox disappeared. i have windows 2000. can someone help >> me, pls. thanks. |