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• After compacting emails, all my emails from September 2011 until now have disappeared. Are there opportunities that I get back them?

  After compacting emails, all my emails from September 2011 until now have disappeared. Are there opportunities that I get back them? I use Outlook Exprees and he suggested that I should compact messages. I've done it several times before and everything was OK until

  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.
   
  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  Recovery methods:
   
  If you are running XP/SP3, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.
   
  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.
   
  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.
   
  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.
   
  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.
   
  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.
   
  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.
   
  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.
   
  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:
   
  DBXpress run in extract disc 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 finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.
   
  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the 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 the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 
   
  And backup often.
   
  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx  

• How can I get my contacts and all the other stuff I had on the old email?

  Original title: I changed my email because they said my old email was invalid... How can I get my contacts and all the other stuff I had on the old email? They said, it has been deleted

  If my email isn't valid how I used it?

  Hello

  1. which email account you are referring to?

  2. What is the version of Windows installed on the computer? For example, Windows 7, Vista

  Please answer these questions and provide additional information so that we can better guide you.

• I had written a long email and it was saved in the drafts in my Windows Live Hotmail account, but he disappeared.

  Hello

  I had written a long email and it was saved in the drafts in my hotmail account. -J' then opened the mail and would go on to compose the project.
  I wrote a letter and the E-mail project everything was gone. Can I get it back? How?
  Thanks for your help.
  original title: lost email project

  You will find support for Windows Live Hotmail in these forums: http://windowslivehelp.com/forums.aspx?productid=1

• Having problems with Windows Live continues to receive emails. Problems to send emails. Returns error

  Windows Live continues to receive emails (passage in thousands), then back to error.  Talked to Dell (bought the laptop from them), they say it's a software problem.  They want to pay for their help.  I need help.  I can generally follow directions.  So I'm asking for help to fix my problem.  I would like to be able to get and receive emails as before.

  You will find support for Windows Live Hotmail in these forums: http://windowslivehelp.com/forums.aspx?productid=1

  In these forums, you will find support for Windows Live Mail : http://windowslivehelp.com/forums.aspx?productid=15

  [Yes, the names are very confusing. [What were they thought? ]

• Outlook Express 'compacting emails.

  Several times a DAY Outlook Express wants to compact my emails. Even if I leave compact emails, it returns & return. What can I do to stop this? I use IE8.

  Windows Search is installed? You must tell Windows Search to stop indexing OE.

  In the control panel. Indexing Options. Change. Clear the check box for Outlook Express.

• I continue to receive emails with images that do not appear?

  Hello

  I continue to receive emails with images that do not display, simply to show a Red Cross in the top left box from where the image should appear. I can download that will automatically open these emails?

  At soon AL

  Since it is a XP forum... I'm guessing that you are running Outlook Express?

  The following steps may be worth a try...

  Open Outlook Express and go to...

  Tools / Options / Security tab.

  Clear (clear) the box "block images and other external content in HTML e-mail" / apply / OK

  Also on the reading tab... Make sure that "Read all messages in plain text" is not checked.

• Compact email goes in the trash...?

  I had a similar problem when I stop, a message pops up asking if I wanted to compact my email.  Sure! The next day, I noticed there are countless emails from my account Windows Express, that I didn't want to NOT deleted. It's a little different... what's up?

  Because of the problems that you have encountered, Microsoft began to save the dbx files in the trash before compacting (see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 for an explanation).

  If you have lost messages during the compaction, you can restore the bak files and retrieve messages.  Just process the file bak as a new dbx file and import it as described here: www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1

  It is very important that you back up your messages frequently in OE if you care for them.  OE will self-destruct messages on its own.  This happens especially if dbx files get more than a few hundred megabytes each, so make sure you bring things (see www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/) If you hold to your messages.

  Steve

• Until I found this thread, I lost 16 months in the Inbox during compacting emails, I went to the trash can and hit restore all, but I can't find them

  As I close outlook wxpress yesterday, I got the prompt for compaction. It's been awhile, so I let it start and stop later the computer without checking anything. Today, when I went to check my messages, everthting from 2012 until yesterday was gone. I went in the trash and saw that he was responsible. I have selected to restore a prompt came and I hit restore all. I return wwent into my Inbox and found nothing changed. I searched the web and found this thread and read something about 'with OE not open' and stuff on .bak and .dbx, and fear that I might have screwed up. Where can I find these messages?

  You need more than a single click to restore. Here's my answer "keeps" together with the instructions. The party concerned is in blue, but please read all this.
   
   
  
  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.
   
  
  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
   
   
  Recovery methods:
   
  If you are running XP/SP3, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.
   
  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.
   
  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.
   
   
  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.
   
  
  Note: If you have new messages in the folder you are go restore, move them to a folder first created user, or they will be lost. They can be moved once the old posts have been restored.
   
  
  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.
   
   
  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.
   
   
  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.
   
  
  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.
   
   
  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
  
   
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:
   
  
  DBXpress run in extract disc 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 finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.
   
  
  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the 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 the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently.
   
   
   
  For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 
   
   
   
  And backup often.
   
   
  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx  
   
   
   
  
   
   

• OE6 compacting emails, three months have disappeared. How to open the archive.pst file?

  Using Windows XP and OE6. I want to open the folder to archive and get the messages back to my Inbox.

  Not use Outlook Express dbx, pst files.
   
   
  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.
   
  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  Recovery methods:
   
  If you are running XP/SP3, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.
   
  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.
   
  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.
   
  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.
   
  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.
   
  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.
   
  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.
   
  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.
   
  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:
   
  DBXpress run in extract disc 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 finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.
   
  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the 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 the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 
   
  And backup often.
   
  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx  

• I compacted emails received, but some of my emails disappeared and can't find it. (outlook express)

  Compact Outlook express

  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  About file Corruption:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

  Recovery methods:

  If you use XP/SP2 or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.

  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.

  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.

  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.

  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.

  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.

  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.

  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:

  DBXpress run in extract disc 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 finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the 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 the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, 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 October 1, 2004 ~ September 30, 2010
  Imperial Beach, CA

• restore the compact emails from windows vista, how can I now read the

  I must have accidentally agreed to compact my email so that all my files or emails that I wanted to keep disappeared.

  I have managed to locate them via windows Explorer, but cannot open them.

  I get the message: windows cannot open this file: winmail.fol

  Another way, I tried, I found WindowsMail.MSMessageStore Type: file MSMESSAGESTORE 4120 KB
  Once again the message windows cannot open this file.

  I hope someone can help me?
  Sue

  Hi helpsue,

  Please take a look at the thread similar here and post Marilyn O.  The wire is for Windows 7, but its links are worth for Vista as well.

  I hope this helps!

• Since Monday I had problems accesssng my emails via Firefox on my laptop. Anyone know how I can sort this out?

  I get an error message whenever I try to access my emails. This has happened since Monday. I am with Virgin and they tried to help, but in vain

  I guess you mean Thunderbird since Firefox is an Internet browser. It could be useful that you have reported the error, Word for Word.

• A virus had attached to an email that I never opened, and it deleted my email Thunderbird profile! Is it possible to get it back? It's urgent!

  A Trojan virus attached to an e-mail that I never opened, but it was in my window, that I scrolled my emails as well as the other emails. I don't remember to open it, but if I did I would NEVER open an attachment, not even people I know, unless I'm expecting something! In any case, my virus scanner caught, but he did nothing on this subject. I ended up finding the folder named 'Profile' which contained the virus. I am sure of that. I removed it, because I could not disinfect or he quarantine a reason any. He has apparently removed my Thunderbird profile, so I can't access my email account when I click on the shortcut for the Office Thunderbird on my Windows screen. Please help. I don't know what to do, but I need to access my emails for invoices, etc..

  Thank you
  John

  but it was in my window, that I scrolled my emails

  What does that mean?

  My caught virus scanner

  Your "virus scanner" is not supposed to analyze your file for Thunderbird profiles in the first place.

  I deleted it

  Not a smart move. With the profile you deleted also all your accounts and mail.

  I removed it, because I could not disinfect or quarantine it

  There is no need of this. A malicious attachment will no damage to your computer as long as you don't try to open or run it.

  I don't know what to do

  You still have the file deleted in the trash? You can try to login to your account via webmail and check if there are still messages on the server.

  For the future, create backups of your profile on a regular basis folder.

  _ http://KB.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird: _FAQs_:_Backing_Up_and_Restoring

• Since the upgrade to El Capitan, Mail frequently continues to move emails at random in the trash. How can I stop this? emails

  After the upgrade, I started noticing that the emails were disappearing from my Inbox. I finally discovered them in the trash. As I clean the junk and Trash regularly, I've lost a few emails before I realized what was going on - very frustrating! I now control Trash before deletion which is an unnecessary pain in the you know what! Everyone knows this problem and what we can do about it?

  At the same time, I noticed that when I compose an email, it appears charges sent mail in time. What is going on? Help.  Peter

  From the Mail menu bar, you select

  ▹ mail preferences... ▹ Accounts ▹ behaviors of the ball

  and uncheck the box marked

  Store drafts on the server