Outlook Express 6: some of my files disappeared

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• Outlook Express in the "compact" XP files I lost all messages in folders to recycle as per the BAK doc

  Frequently, Outlook Express 6 wants to "compact" file. I welcomed that this and this time lost all messages in the folders of Outlook Express. They appear in recycle as per the BAK how doc do to restore the trash by the Doc to the folders in Outlook Express?  Also, how can I preclule this loss in the future?

  Thank you

  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

• Outlook express asks me to compact files,.

  Outlook express asks me to compact files, even if I left him he keeps asking more and more every 10-20 min no matter how many times I left it compact and files it ask me to do it again

  Other programs can cause this.  If you have Windows Desktop Search installed, go to control panel | Indexing options (I think that's where he is) and disable indexing courses OE.  If this doesn't fix it, then its another program.
   
  Steve
   
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  Outlook express asks me to compact files, even if I left him he keeps asking more and more every 10-20 min no matter how many times I left it compact and files it ask me to do it again

• 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.
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

• When Outlook Express asks you to compress files, what happens to my e-mail messages?

  Outless Express has a pop-up asking you to compress my files of e-mail message to free the disk space. If I click YES, my e-mail messages are deleted?

  Your e-mail messages are not deleted when you compact, unless there's a problem. Always backup personal folders on your computer, e-mail or otherwise.
   
   
  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it?
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
   
  Compacting your folders periodically is a must to keep OE works fine and at some point, you may lose all your saved messages if you do not. When you delete or move messages, the space they used remains until you compact.
   
   
  Never touch anything until the compression is finished.* *.
   
   
  See:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2
   
   
  With SP2, Automatic compaction in the background has been removed because of problems he has caused. Now, you will get a prompt to compact after 100 closures of OE, you need to do, and do not touch anything until it's finished. If you compact manually, at your convenience, this will also set the counter to zero. See this for more information: http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact
   
   
  If you are fully patched, you will now see a copy of your dbx files copied to the Recycle Bin as BAK files. If something goes wrong when compacting, the messages can be easily restored from this backup. A compact manual resets also the counter in the back of the registry to zero now.
   
   
  For more information, see the information framed in red here:
  www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2
   
   
  To keep things running smooth and harden faster:
   
   
  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. It will eventually become corrupt and you may lose mail. 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.
   
   
  And backup often.
   
   
  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx 
   

• My outlook express 6.0 sometimes powers down (disappears from my office while I use it) why?

  When I'm in the Middle using OE, it sometimes disappears and appears as an icon on my desktop!  Why? How can I prevent it?

  An icon on the desktop, or minimized in the taskbar?

  You may have a damaged identity especially if it's the default main identity. File | Identities | Add the new identity. Create a new one and try it. If all goes well, you can import your messages and address book from the old identity and delete it.

  Note: Do not use the main word in the name of the new identity.

  General precautions for Outlook Express:

  Do not archive mail in the receipt or sent items box. Create your own user-defined folders and move messages you want to put in them. Empty the deleted items folder daily. Although the dbx files have a theoretical capacity of 2 GB, I recommend all a 300 MB max for less risk of corruption.

  Information on the maximum size of the .dbx files that are used by Outlook Express:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/?kbid=903095

  After you're done, followed by compacting your folders manually while working * off * and do it often.

  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.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the processors and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs and account setting changes. 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

• Lost in Outlook Express - trying to retrieve missing files

  Hello-

  I hope someone can help me. Our desktop computer crashed, so rather that investing in a new system, we decided to use our working laptop and bought a box for the drive of the old computer motherboard, because that had not been affected. It now shows up as drive F when we plugged him (as an external drive). I'm recovering Outlook Express FOLDERS that I created on my desktop. I have spent countless hours trying to do this and can't seem to get it. We have used Outlook Express on your old computer, with COX as our email service provider and try even with that. I managed to install our identities without any problem, I can't do the next step that retrieves my old emails, including those appearing in some files I had created and had created some including Outlook Express.

  Basically, I need to find the files in the folders on drive F (old hard drive) and copy them into my Outlook Express courses. I'm puzzled. I really need to find someone's address and it's the only place where I got it.

  Any suggestion or help would be GREATLY appreciated.

  Thank you

  Audrey

  You are in the Vista Networking newsgroup. On the current computer are you using Vista? If you are, you do not use Outlook Express. Please provide details.

  How did you create records OE on the desktop? They contain messages, (eml files), or store the message dbx files? If dbx files, don't you include folders, dbx?

  If necessary, can you still see the OE message store on the HARD drive old? It is the way, but do not have something else to see if you can find it.

  In Windows XP, Win2K & Win2K3 the OE user files (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.

  The path to the message will be very similar to this:

  C:\Documents and Settings\Your User of utilisateur\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\ {long string of letters & numbers} \Microsoft\Outlook Express

  Bruce Hagen ~ MS - MVP [Mail]

• We clicked on "Compact messages" in Outlook Express and 6 months of messages disappeared! Any ideas as to the why, where they could be, and how they can be recovered?

  We watched in 'Deleted items' and they weren't there.  We also "restored" the bin "recycling" and even did not see them return.

  Hi James,

  Thanks for posting. Please, try the following.

  • Make sure that Outlook Express is not working.
  • Open the Recycle Bin on your Windows desktop .
  • Locate the files ".bak" corresponding to Outlook Express folders that you want to retrieve.
    • The '.bak' file will be named as the folder in Outlook Express.
    • To restore a folder called "Archive", look for "Archive.bak", for example.
  • Click on the file '.bak' with the right button of the mouse.
  • Select restore from the menu.
  • Locate the file in Windows Explorer and open the folder that contains.
  • Drag and drop the file ".dbx" corresponding to the Outlook Express folder, you want to get back to your Office .
  • In the Outlook Express store folder, click the '.bak' file to be retrieved using the right button of the mouse.
  • Select Rename from the menu.
  • Change the file extension ".bak" in ".dbx".
    • If the file was called "Archive.bak", for example, make sure that it is named "Archive.dbx" now.
  • Open Outlook Express.
  • If your emails have been recovered, remove the ".dbx" file you moved to the desktop .

  Also, if you cannot find the files in the above location search your computer *. Bak

  I hope this helps!
  Shawn - Support Engineer - MCP, MCDST
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• In Outlook Express, can not see the file tab, such as page moves right

  I can't move the Outlook Express mail page to the right.  It just won't go further to the right.  I get the arrow on the right side, but he doesn't hover over.   So I don't see the file, only a part of the Mail tab tab (-Arnaud).

  It is not really clear what you mean.  You can move the entire window of OE by clicking on the title bar (blue at the top of the window) and hold the mouse and then moving the mouse.  It is also not clear what you hear on the mail tab and the file tab.  Are you sure you're saying OE and not Outlook?  You can also try view | Layout to change what is displayed.

  Steve

• Windoxs XP - Outlook Express 6 does not display files or emails, can anyone help please?

  Please can someone help me use Widows XP and Outlook Express 6.0 and Monday when I opened Outlook Express missing all folders and emails.   The toolbar appears at the top and at the bottom of the screen in the gray bar, he tells me how much emails is in my Inbox and how many unread emails but I can't see or access.

  Records that are normally displayed at the bottom of the left side of the screen is absent all e-mails are missing, the name, issue date headers are also missing as well as all the scroll bars, the majority of the screen is blank.

  I have been using Talk Talk since 2009, but now if I hit send and receive, I get an error message, the most recent is Ox800ccc92.     I would be very grateful if someone could help as Talk Talk could not.

  Bridget

  Hi Bridget E. Fowkes,.

  1. Did you the latest changes on the computer?
  2. You have security software installed on the computer?

  See the articles below and check if it helps.

  All e-mail messages may be missing when you start Outlook Express 6.0 Service Pack 1 or Outlook Express 6.0 Service Pack 2

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/918069

  OLEXP: Mail, address book files and e-mail Messages are missing after you upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/313055

  Outlook Express and Outlook repeatedly ask for your password when you check messages on an Exchange Server computer

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/236032

• YOU CAN SET OUTLOOK EXPRESS AUTO ATTACH A PDF FILE TO A SPECIFIC E-MAIL MESSAGE?

  HI, HOPING SOMEONE CAN HELP ME. IM NOT TECH SAVVY AT ALL! Laughing out loud

  AT WORK, I USE OUTLOOK EXPRESS TO SEND THE SAME EMAIL MSG TO ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS IN OUR DATABASE. I SEND THESE MESSAGES ONE BY ONE. IM ALSO A PDF FILE ATTACHED TO THIS MSG IS ANYWAY TO SET OUTLOOK AUTO ATTACH THE PDF FILE? I HAVE THE MSG SET UP AS A SIGNATURE SO I DON'T NOT RETYPING IT EACH TIME.

  THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS!
  CANDiCE

  Ok. You are fully patched.

  Just to recap, you open a new message window and save that not a lead or an answer, correct?

  If so, download and install the zip here and restart. Then check your again saved eml file.
  http://www.insideoe.com/#kb918651
  Bruce Hagen MS - MVP [Mail]

• I have the mssage of error saying that Outlook Express will not open the file MSOE. DLL cannot be initialized

  When I try to open Outlook Express 6 I get 2 error messages

  the first says Outlook Express

  Outlook Express could not be started. The application could not start the Internet account manager. Your computer may be out of memory or your disk drive is may be full. For more assistance, contact Microsoft support. (0 x 80007114)
   
  then the following message
   
  Outlook Express could not be started because Msoe.dll could not be initialized
   
  What can I do?

  You can try deleting folders.dbx (after saving): see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#7 , but you will need to follow these steps: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/245419

  Steve

• I can't open Outlook Express - the blue screen appears, then disappears - can't no identity log-in

  According to the title-Outlook Express does not open. The blue ' title screen appears for a few moments then quits. No plug-in software component newspaper identity appears.

  Start here.

  When OE crashes or won't start
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#crash

• Error: files currently use Outlook Express or another application.

  Original title: compact problem Outlook Express

  Recently, I get a consistent message that Outlook Express wants to compact my files. I click OK and it starts the process, then he gets in the "sent" folder and stops with the message "the folderis in use by Outlook Express or by another application" with a box of OK or cancel. Anyway the compaction closes and then some time later, the compact message comes back. Problem seems to have started when I enabled the indexation. I unchecked Outlook Express in the Index box option but still get the message. What I have to delete the "sent" folder and let recreate it or is there another problem miss me?

  As long as you have moved all your messages in the folders that you want to replace, go ahead and remove the dbx files to the files that you moved the messages of. At least, now, you will have a clean and functional items.

  Now, what is the size of the new folder with sent items? It can be a single message, or the full file.

• Convert .dbx to .pst Outlook files (from outlook express).

  Hey guys,.

  I have searched and tried all the suggestions from Google, but they are not the solutions that I can use. I have the entire Outlook Express .dbx folder just 2 files. I need to convert .pst or at least be able to import them into Outlook 2007. I was able to recover only 2 files .dbx from the old computer and am running WIndows 7 Professional with Outlook 2007 on the new computer that I want to get the 2 .dbx files in. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

  Google shows some converters free and paid, and some of those paid have a trial period.
  http://www.Google.com/search?q=dbx+to+eml+converter&RLS=com.Microsoft: en - us & ie = UTF-8 & oe = UTF-8 & startIndex = & startPage = 1

  Note that I've never used Outlook or a converter, it's just a guess. When you use OE, you could drag a folder in OE messages in a Windows folder on the desktop. You can then copy this folder on another machine, open it, highlight all messages and drag them into a folder in OE. Or drag them to a folder in Windows Live Mail. I guess if you got messages as eml, you could drag them into an Outlook folder as well.

  Bruce Hagen
  MS - MVP October 1, 2004 ~ September 30, 2010
  Imperial Beach, CA