Most of my OE .dbx files are disproportionately high

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• I forgot to backup Outlook Express! However, the .dbx files are all in the data folder of Application that I have back up! How can I see what is in them to import to my chosen e-mail program?

  Original title: .dbx files

  I've updated computer laptop of my client from Windows XP to 7.  I forgot to backup Outlook Express!  However, the .dbx files are all in the data folder of Application that I have back up!  How can I see what is in them to import to my chosen e-mail program?

  This is how you would normally import into Windows Live Mail. If all goes well it will give you enough of a jump start.
   
   
   
  Copy the * ENTIRE * OE message store folder to a flash drive. (Folders.dbx must be included). Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail.
   
  
  WLMail 2011/2012: folder button. Import Messages. Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and the point where it was saved.
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

• Access to the OE 6 dbx file recovery

  I just opened OE6 and noticed that over a third of my local files dbx are missing.  They appear in the box of identities, however.  This happened after OE my files compressed the previous night.  I also just learned that the OE has a 2G file size limit.  My total files 3.1 G, but this has never been a problem in the past.  OS is XP.  Can someone give me some gudance?  Thank you.  Mary

  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  
   
   
   
  
   

• Outlook Express Inbox messages or files are missing.

  Yesterday morning, Monday, January 24 when I open my browser to surf on Outlook Express, I discovered that all my messages in Inbox and / pr files are missing. I was given the opportunity to click on in order to replace the most recent data in the box to pop up on the screen: compact down, it seems like. Thinking that assistance, I innocently click on 'Yes', this is the result: all incoming the previiousd and this letter is as gone with the wind (disappeared).

  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

• backup Windows used on xp family - need to locate the .dbx files to restore

  Recently, I wiped the water of the hard drive and reinstalled XP.  I ' v been using the Windows backup utility (from the installation disc Add ons) and I have the old files on a portable hard drive.  I am still investigating the .dbx files to restore the old email from outlook express, but when I use the restore option and try to browse the backup folder, the structure I see seems fragmented and still incomplete.  He did not get down to the level of the individual files that windows Explorer, and I don't want to bring back a bunch of garbage in a new installation of XP.  Anyone know the folder that contains the dbx files, and what else would I be restore with backup if I restore this file?

  Hi there MYOdB,

  You can use the Wizard to restore in the backup or Restore Wizard to select the files to restore; you will need to restore the Documents and Settings folder, because the .dbx files are normally stored in C:\Documents and Settings\ [your original username] \Application Data\Identities\ {a string} \Microsoft\Outlook Express

  You must also make sure that you have hidden files or folders shows: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/hiddenfiles.mspx

  More information about the restoration of backups: http://uis.georgetown.edu/software/documentation/winxp/winxp.restore.html

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• I can't open the dbx files in the storage folder?

  Somewhere, I am unable to open dbx files in the folder of stores located in my documents. I'm trying uesing MS word and Notepad without result. Can anyone help please.

  Peter

  Moved from feedback

  Windows version not specified

  DBX files are used by Outlook Express to store messages and data.  No program can read outside of EO, because messages are stored in a proprietary format which is not documented.  If you have messages in files, you can import them either manually in OE (see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1) or alternatively you can retrieve messages using my DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) program which will extract the as other e-mail programs can import eml files in them.

  Steve

• I can't convert WPS or DBX files in a readable format... they came a sys XP and now imported to Win 8... simple please? !!

  I installed Word Viewer and no help. I need to install Office with word? Then, the conversion will be automatic? I have a little

  important documents I can't access.

  See this on the WPS files.

  http://pcsupport.about.com/od/FileExtensions/f/wps-file.htm

  DBX files are data files Outlook Express and you will need a Windows Live Mail e-mail client to open.

  In Outlook Express, compact you files first.

  Click Outlook Express at the top of the the folder tree so no folders are open. Then: File | Work offline (or double-click on work online in the status bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed.

  Compress your OE folders:
  http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact

  Transfer of data from Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail:

  For Messages:

  Copy the * ENTIRE * OE message store folder to a flash drive. (Folders.dbx must be included). Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail.

  V-2009: open WLMail and: file | Import | Messages | Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and the point where it was saved.

  V-2011/2012: Menu button. Import Messages. Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and the point where it was saved.

  Location of OE message store:

  In OE: 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 OE User (DBX and WAB) are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder Options icon | Opinion, or in Windows Explorer. Tools | Folder options | View.

  Note: If any DBX file is over 300 MB, return to OE and move some messages from the folder related to a new user created folder and compact down the size of the file.

  For addresses:

  Open the address book in OE and file | Export | Address book (wab) and save it to the desktop. Copy it to a flash drive. Place it on the desktop or another location on the computer using WLMail.

  For WLMail 2009: Open list of Contacts in WLMail, (go |) Contacts in the Menu bar) and the file | Import | Address book (wab) Windows and the point where you saved it.

  WLMail 2011/2012: switch to the contacts window (click on the book icon to the address at the foot of the folders pane, or press Ctrl-3). Click on the import button, select address book (wab) Windows and point on where it was saved.

  Note: If you use a CD or a DVD instead of a flash drive, after placing on the new machine you must remove the read-only attribute in the properties before you import.

  For the account settings:

  In OE: Tools | Accounts, select the account and export it to the desktop. This will be an .iaf file. Copy it to the new desktop computer.

  For WLMail 2009: Tools | Accounts and import the settings from the location you saved the.

  For WLMail 2011: The Menu button. Options | E-mail accounts and import the settings from the location you saved the.

  Account settings do not matter in WLMail 2012. You will have to do it manually.

  Windows Live Mail help is in this forum
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/Forum/LIVEmail?tab=all

• My main computer crashed and the data has been retrieved from the hard drive, including all of my Outlook Express dbx files

  I'll provide too much information because those of us who are computer knuckleheads think that everything is important since it is a mystery to us.

  My main computer crashed and the data has been retrieved from the hard drive, including all of my Outlook Express dbx files. There are four years of e-mails in these files and critical that I be able to open them.

  My only working computer running XP. It has Outlook Express is installed on it and was once used for e-mail, but not more and not implemented with my ISP to send or receive if it matters at all. Other that the sending and receiving of all the other functions of the OE program appear to be operational.

  I have read many explanations on how to open the files dbx on different sites - all is completely different and most seem well beyond my skill level.

  There is a fairly painless way to open these files? I don't want to try anything that could damage them. Please... any solution please guide me through in its simplest form - I am 64 but pretend you are explaining the process to a 7 year old. Yes, I'm that lame!

  Sorry for writing a novel and thank you to all who take their time to help the ignorant!

  I advise you to immediately copies of your DBX files restored. Save the duplicates in a place safe, and don't mess with them.
  Then try using one of the various tutorials that you have found on the Internet by using a copy of your DBX files restored.
  I did it a few times, but years ago and I DBX http://www.techrepublic.com/forums/questions/how-i-open-corrupted-dbx-files-in-oe/ visualization tool
  You just continue to make attempts, using a tutorial after another.
  As long as you have these unchanged copies of backup of your DBX files, you should survive it - other than frustration. Email PC remains a mess.

• Files size columns pane does not update when files are deleted

  Version of Thunderbird 38.4.0 day the "Total"-column, when files are deleted, but the column "size" in unchanged.»

  I use the 'size' as you mentioned above to remind myself to keep my records.

  When you delete a message, it is "marked as deleted" and from your point of view, it disappears from the eg: Inbox and moves to the folder "Deleted/trash".

  In reality, it's still in the Inbox, looks and "marked as deleted.

  This makes it much easier to retrieve a message deleted if made in error.

  To remove all traces of messages "marked as deleted", you need to compact your folders.
  Right click on "Inbox" and select "compact".

  Or do all the folders 'file' > 'Compact '.

  You will also notice that when you empty the "Junk" folder, it also still shows a size until you compact the fodler.

  Compaction, it's something, you should do regularly especially on the Inbox and Junk folders as they propbably make the most of the activity when it comes to deletion.
  Compaction is a way to keep your files and to create a space.

  If you were not compact, then it is advisable to create abackup first, just in case there is a hidden file corruption.

  More info on:
  How to keep your health thunderbird:

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Keep_it_working_%28Thunderbird%29

  Compaction - what it does and why it is important.

  • _ http://KB.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird: _Tips_:_Compacting_Folders

  Backup:

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup

• How to change the directory where the files are placed in other applications to access?

  ESR running on Centos (RedHat) 5 & 6. Because of the way my system is set up, I would change where Firefox updates a file when they need to be accessed by another application (for example, a .doc file). The default is to place them in / tmp, which works for most people, but does not work in my particular installation. (Among the programs that I use to read some files are actually on another computer, but can be started automatically from the computer, I'm browsing). I need to place these files in a network directory, so that the other computer can see.

  I looked into: config, but can't find anything pointing to/tmp. I hope that it is one of these "add a new line to about: config ' things that are supposed to be (from bones), but can be changed if necessary.

  Thank you
  Ted Miller

  You probably can make only by changing the variable of environment TMPDIR = / tmp to point to this network drive.
  
  You can start Firefox via a script file if you want to do this for all applications.

  #!/bin/sh
  
  export TMPDIR=<path to tmp directory>
  cd <path to Firefox>
  ./firefox
  

• Attempts to migrate files, but some files are invisible to me

  Description of the problem:

  Old PC died, but hard drive was fine. Bought a new PC, removed old hard drive from the old computer, used an adapter to connect the old hard drive to new computer (this part has functioned well).

  My music files are of several types:

  (1) some were bought on itunes

  (2) some have purchased from amazon

  (3) some have been saved out of vinyl into digital copies

  (4) some were regular old CD that I have loaded on my old PC

  These different file types, they are all visible on my existing iPod, and I use my PC with iTunes to manage my music. The files that I can not find were all old CD I had loaded my previous PC (or even the one before that). About 100 "albums" are not appearing in my newly migrated iTunes library. In addition, they do not appear on my old hard drive, but they WERE on the old PC and the old iTunes library.

  Question: What happens here? and I can do to make these files visible? I looked in all the existing files, and they are not visible anywhere. I don't have these CD most of the time. I fear that I must buy the albums again.

  Second question: if I sync my iPod with 400 albums of my iTunes library that has only 300 albums, I'll lose those who is not represented in the iTunes library or if the two systems will cross? I'm afraid I'll lose music if I sync my iPod (which has more music files) to the iTunes library (which has fewer files).

  Thank you

  How do you migrate the iTunes library - did you use the iTunes on the old disk database, or create a new library and import media from the old drive?  In both cases, you see the files/folders for albums 'disappeared' on the old drive?

  BTW, in almost all cases you have no right to keep the media from a CD if you have is no longer the physical CD.

• An easy way to re-import massive media after a hard disk crash if the library files are intact?

  Hello

  I'm running 10.2.3 on OS X 10.11.3 FCPX. My external hard drive just crashed, and while I was able to save most everything else (including library files, proxy support, etc.), Miss me about 90% of the media about 2 000 "original" files. Because the library files have been saved, it seems that my projects seem to be intact, including the cuts and changes. Since FCPX knows what files and parts of files were previously imported, import should be easy... except for the fact that there are about 1 800 distributed clips on dozens of camera archives.

  Is there a way to 'massive re-import' office where he knows the clips came, without having to wade through thousands of clips in dozens of archives and manually by clicking on each of them? Because there is also the fact that, due to several archives of the camera used, different are multiple "Clip #1", "Clip #2", etc. that FCP is solved by adding a number at the end (for example, "Clip #1 (fcp1)" and "Clip #1 (fcp2)"). " I'm afraid that if I import everything in disorder (maybe I not initially import a clip, but returned later and get it), I'll have to sift through to find a needle in a haystack and rename the files manually.

  Even if I have to specify the locations of these archives of tens of couple, it would be so much easier than having to go into each of them and click 1 800 files manually... Any suggestions?

  Please and thank you!

  Too bad. I had assumed the import > reimportation of the camera wasn't working, but apparently because I had saved the AVCHD archives on my hard drive via the Finder instead of 'Create the Archives' of in Final Cut, he just didn't see them. Creating new archives of these same AVCHD files (or rather the folders 'PRIVATE' which originally housed them on the SD card) did the trick and I was able to reimport. Alternatively, I could have re-recorded these SD cards PRIVATE folders and it would have identified those as the original 'camera' once again, too and I could have reimported it... but who would be tedious.

• I had to install Widows XP Home SP2 on a new hard drive. How can I import my .dbx files Express into__Outlook?

  I copied the files to the Outlook Express folder, but they do not appear when Outlook Express is started. I haven't had any problem copy my address book Windows (WAB) file. My addresses appear, but I have important files stored in folders that I need and are irreplaceable.
  Can someone help me please
  Ernie in Arizona

  You must import the data.

  References:

  Backup & restore OE data
  http://www.insideoe.com/backup/
  http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

  OE data import (all DBX, including Folders.dbx files)
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/how.htm#importOE5

  General OE newsgroup support: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

  ~ Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ WARNING: MS MVPs represent or work for Microsoft

• Reached maximum .dbx file Inbox

  My of Outlook Express Inbox.dbx file has reached the maximum limit of 2 gig and now I see all the emails in OE.

  Is there a way to open the .dbx file and edit it to a smaller size, so I see the emails manually?

  If not, how can I retrieve emails from the file and bring back them to OE?

  Thank you

  You can extract the messages from the Inbox.dbx file using my DBXpress program (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) as eml files, which can then be dragged in OE folders.  If the file was emptied of messages then nothing can find them in the file, but DBXpress has an excerpt from the disc feature that may be able to recover.

  You can move the Inbox.dbx file to another directory and then OE will create a vacuum.  But you're probably better disable by clicking file | Identities and establishing a new identity, incompetent and then using file | Import | Messages to bring them from the old identity.

  DBX files should be limited to a few hundred megabytes as they otherwise tend to get corrupted and messages are lost.  Therefore, it is important to back up all the important messages frequently.  See points 2, 3 and 6 here: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx

  Steve

• OE6 .dbx files do not "exported".

  In a panic, I copied my files Outlook Express .dbx on an external drive, rather that export them. Now that my OS has been reinstalled, I am unable to get them into OE again, even with the import function.  Help?

  Copy the entire repertoire of dbx files to a subdirectory under My Documents.  Then select all the dbx files and right-click on it and choose Properties and uncheck the read-only attribute if it is defined.  Then use a file | Import | Messages in OE, point to the directory (note that folders.dbx must be present) dbx files.  If she will not yet imported, you can try to import dbx files individually (see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1) or my DBXpress program will extract the messages from files if the messages are still in the files dbx (see www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/).

  Steve