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| Thread ID: 105810 | 2009-12-15 07:23:00 | Outlook Express Inbox Mail Disappeared | Winston001 (3612) | Press F1 |
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| 839829 | 2009-12-15 07:23:00 | Eerrk! I've been having problems with my email lately using Outlook Express. New mail would not download. I solved that by emptying Deleted Items which freed up space. However this afternoon the Inbox froze so I closed OE, reopened it - and Inbox was then empty. I've Googled but no simple solutions sprang out. Any suggestions? There are plenty of .dbx files but I don't know what to do with them. I have Eudora installed but prefer OE. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 839830 | 2009-12-15 07:52:00 | How much email do you actually have (TOTAL Combined of all dbx files) in OE ? it does have a limit of 2GB - once that limit is reached it often corrupts. To recover lost emails in OE, Outlook etc I have used RecoveryToolbox (www.recoverytoolbox.com) - not free, but the trial lets you see if it can recover the mails. There are lots of different recovery programs, but this one worked the best from all I tried ( that was a few years back)Their home site (http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/). What you may also be able to do, is go to the OE store - copy out the dbx files, and restore them to another PC/ user account - this "may" allow you to reopen, just depends on how or if badly they are corrupted |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 839831 | 2009-12-15 10:52:00 | Ha! Just had a machine in the workshop today with the exact same problem. Inbox.dbx file had reached its 2gb limit and oe was showing no emails in the inbox and no new emails would download. I used recovery tool for outlook express as I have bought a copy about a year ago as we use it often. Once emails were recovered renamed the inbox.dbx to something else and opened oe. It automatically creates a new inbox and emails started downloading again. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 839832 | 2009-12-16 06:30:00 | I think I was over the 2 GB limit judging by the size of some of the .dbx files I've found. Creating a new Identity was a good idea Wainui - I discovered two temporary identities created a while ago. I've emptied them and then removed them. | Winston001 (3612) | ||
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