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| 582863 | 2007-08-19 22:08:00 | Upon closing down my PC for the night, and at the behest of Windows XP Home Edition, I compacted my In-box and OE seems to have merely deleted my last 6 months of emails. Is there any way of retrieving them please? | Mike S (1766) | ||
| 582864 | 2007-08-19 23:01:00 | Are they in your recycle bin? | Scouse (83) | ||
| 582865 | 2007-08-20 06:48:00 | From what I have read, when you compact OE it can cause Corruption, but if you don't it can also corrupt - catch 22 eh! Found This (forums.pcworld.com) - may be of some help, may not. Good luck |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 582866 | 2007-08-20 23:22:00 | Yes Scouse, the file does appear to be in the recycle bin, along with all the other OE folders. Thanks for the good luck wishes! I may need 'em, wack! Thanks wainuitech for that forum reference; I'll study that before I do anything else. |
Mike S (1766) | ||
| 582867 | 2007-08-23 05:51:00 | Wainuitech's message didn't really get me any further forward, I'm sorry to say. I'm still undecided as to what action to take. If I right click on that Inbox file in the recycle bin and choose 'Restore', is it really likely that my 6 months worth of emails will magically re-appear? I would value the opinions others please before I actually do the dread deed. I don't fully trust OE to do the logical thing, since the logic of deleting 6 months emails as a way of 'compacting' folders is lost on me. Is OE really as Micky Mouse as it seems? Please help! Mike S |
Mike S (1766) | ||
| 582868 | 2007-08-23 06:05:00 | If your emails you are wanting / lost are in fact in the Deleted items, and you can see them , normally by selecting and then restore they will go back and show in the original location. If in doubt select 1 mail only that's not really important and try that, it should put it right back. Is OE micky Mouse - Its Microsoft, who knows what some times happens -:groan: FYI: OE asks to compact every 100 opening so I read. PS just found out the links now comming up as being "out Dated" ...GEEEESSSS - cant win eh!:( ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 582869 | 2007-08-23 06:09:00 | Hi Mike. I would make a backup of whatever you have at the moment and then do a restore. You lose nothing. I would look at Outlook Express Backup available from www.staticbackup.com They have a free version or a couple of weeks trial of the commercial version - either would suit your one-off problem. More than fifty years since anyone called me wack. |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 582870 | 2007-08-23 07:43:00 | Looks like sound advice to me Scouse. Many thanks. I'll give it a try. Mike S |
Mike S (1766) | ||
| 582871 | 2007-08-27 22:45:00 | My aged grey cells are obviously impaired. After re-reading the above emails the penny suddenly drops. It seems I have inadvertently given the impression that each “lost” email exists in the recycle bin as a discreet and viewable message, and that is far from the truth. Remember I said THE file. In fact it appears that all of the files for any single folder are packed as one unit: as an example a single file appears in the recycle for the Inbox messages, and it’s called Inbox.bak, and in my case it’s over 1.2 Gigabytes. So you cannot see or restore any individual message. The messages have (presumably) been compacted by OE and placed in the recycle bin as a single file with a .bak file extension. So my problem is to get it UN-packed and back where it belongs. Thinking about the size of that file it may well be that OE has completely lost 6 months worth of my emails and merely compacted the remainder. It’s all beyond me, and is beginning to take on the feel of yet anther lost cause typical MS cock-up. BTW I have used the OE backup program suggested by Scouse. Just supposing I wanted to restore those emails it has backed-up messages, is there an easy way of doing that restoration? The other thought that strikes me of course is that OE offered compaction of the (admittedly large) files and my having said yes it apparently chucked ‘em in the rubbish bin; not quite as benign as the impression one is given. So, I would still like to get back those missing 6 months. |
Mike S (1766) | ||
| 582872 | 2007-08-27 22:54:00 | Read this. support.microsoft.com |
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