Outlook Express: emails disappear from the Inbox

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• My new incoming email disappears from the Inbox in windows mail once I see.

  Once I find a mail in my Inbox and then disconnect... his party.
  Same thing happens if I click one of my subfolders in windows mail and then return to the Inbox, at least one of my emails if it is no longer disappeared. They are not in subfolders or deleted mail... just WENT!
  Please notify
  Neilyjim

  Hello Neilyjim,
   
  Thank you for using the Microsoft Windows Vista Forums.

  Sorry, you experience this problem.  How long have you been experiencing this problem?  What anti-virus software are you running?  Did you change your operating system before this problem?  While in the Inbox, access the item menu view, current view.  Make sure "show all messages" is selected.

  Norton email scanner is perhaps the single biggest troublemaker known for Windows Mail.  If it is installed and running, you have a time bomb in front of you that could just off the coast.  A similar question in this forum found the missing e-mails in some form of Norton backup folder, and I don't know if they were accessible from there or not.

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vistaprograms/thread/eed221b3-38e2-481C-84F3-c6d4f3a6d537
  Inbox folders Windows Mail containing stored messages have disappeared

  No, you will NOT be at risk, analysis of electronic mail is a totally redundant process that does nothing but waste time and create problems.  The only way that attachments should be made by all e-mail clients before long resident file system monitor every last one of them until you can do something with them.  My suggestion is to uninstall Norton completely, download and run the Norton Removal Tool of the web Symantec site to clean debris, uninstaller fails to remove, and then reinstall Norton by using the Custom Installation option where you can stop the emails being installed analysis.

  http://Service1.Symantec.com/support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039
  Download and run the Norton removal tool

  Please let us know status.  Thank you! Engineer James Microsoft Support answers visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• Read emails disappear from the Inbox when I return to the Inbox

  If 'Read' Emails are left in the "Inbox" and then I leave this folder, move it to another folder and return to the "Inbox" only "unread" e-mail is visible. All 'Read' previously in the "Inbox" emails have disappeared - I can't find them in any folder. Recently, I found the tab "Quick filter" - it is as if the tab "Unread" is locked on. Use Thunderbird Version 37.7.08.

  View (Alt - V) - son - all

• All my posts have disappeared from the Inbox.

  I realized there is a similar problem posted, but proposed solutions don't work here and the details here are different.

  All messages have disappeared from the Inbox. The sent box is fine, but deleted from the Inbox messages do not appear in the Recycle Bin.

  A search of the Inbox for messages of size > 0 allows me to see the messages and respond to them.
  If I move a message to another folder the moved message is invisible but believes it is search.

  Deleted messages are in the trash folder, but is not visible. A search in the trash finds them.

  Messages in the search boxes reuse (response, delete), but try to delete a selected message in the search box list has no effect.

  I found a solution. I can't take credit, but I tell you that I was almost embarrassed the simplicity of the solution and the problem.
  AT & T ConnectTech technician admitted that when I could left click and select the message in a tab, it was probable that nothing was clicked in the "select to display columns" in the top right of the CT. He clicks on a selection of articles and automatically that my messages appeared.

• Why my old emails disappear from the cloud?

  Why my old emails disappear from the cloud?  After only a month or two, they are gone! (and I pay extra each month more space!)

  Hello Unhappywoman,

  Thank you for using communities Support from Apple!

  From your post, I understand that old emails are deleted after a month. This can be due to behaviors of the mailbox defined for your iCloud account.

  The following article explains how to look at these settings. My suspicion is that the section "permanently erase deleted messages when:" is set at one month old.

  Use Mail preferences to set or change options for e-mail accounts , you use mail and to work with messages and mailboxes. Choose Mail > Preferences, and then click a preferences panel for the options:

  • Accounts: Add, remove, and disable your email accounts in mail. Use only the part of the mailbox behaviors to control how the project, junk, sent, and deleted (or "Basket") messages are stored. Advanced pane includes options for messages, attachments and more.

  Set Mail preferences - help Mail

  See you soon!

• Problems to access emails due to the area of security of Windows and all the emails have disappeared from the Inbox

  I have a HP with Windows Vista computer.  For the last few days whenever I try to access my email using Windows Mail, a Windows security box appears you request for my user name and password that are not accepted when I type in and to "allow" with a lock symbol appears low to the right of the screen, where "incoming mail" would normally appear. I get the occasional batch of e-mails through but only once per day.  Two days ago, all of my original emails (about 1,000) have disappeared from my Inbox.  I rang my phone co co/email, microsoft and the manufacturers of my coomputer, but everyone tells me problem of is the other company.  Meanwhile, I am really concerned about all the emails that I lost.  Can anyone suggest how to get rid of this security box and restore all my lost emails?  Help!

  Hello

  1. Since when are you facing this problem?

  2 did you changes to Windows Mail settings?

  I suggest you follow these methods and check.

  Method 1:  Windows message store can be damaged or corrupted.  You can try to rebuild the message store.

  Rebuild the Windows Mail message store
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/941090

  Note: Follow the method 1 first, which is mentioned in the link above.  If rebuilding the message store does not help, follow method 2 to rebuild the Windows Mail folder.

  Method 2: Solve problems with Windows Mail

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/troubleshoot-problems-with-Windows-Mail

   

   

  I also suggest you to update the virus for your anti-virus definitions. In addition, make sure you have all the windows security updates installed on your computer.

  I hope this helps.

  Thank you.

• Did Outlook Express emails disappear!

  I logged on my Microsoft Outlook express mail and all my emails read previously disappeared, and all that I had stored in my subfolders are gone too... How to make a comeback? My deleted messages are there, my projects and contacts are there too... Help!

  While in the Inbox: view | Current view. Show all Messages is checked and nothing else? If this is not the solution, read on.

  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 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 6.0. delete the Inbox

  I can't remove all the messages in my Inbox.

  You have corruption of dbx files.

  Spend most of your messages out of the Inbox (if you can), and move the messages you want to record off deleted items and sent items. Locate the OE message store and then close 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, 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.

  With OE closed, find the Deleted Items.dbx and Sent Items.dbx files and delete them. New files will be created automatically when you open OE.

  Compact all folders as described below.

  To avoid this in the future:

  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

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

• Opening Outlook Express - goes directly to the Inbox, but it has not annotated the headers of messages

  All of a sudden when I open Oulook Express it goes directly to the Inbox, however, there is no annotated the headers of the message.  The Inbox goes to an open email (last seen) and I have to scroll between open emails to read.  There is no front paget that lists topics, sender As Object, etc...  I tried to change views, options and all the things in tools, reviews, tabs etc. top of the screen but cannot get this first page abbreviated to come.  Anyone who could help me with that it would be greatly appreciated.

  Do you have you uncheck the preview in the view pane. Page layout?

  Outlook Express issues should be posted here.

  XP - Networking, Mail, and getting online Forum
  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/xpnetwork/threads

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

• Change default language in Outlook Express 6.0 from the French into English

  Under Tools/Options/Spelling, there is only one language, French.  How do I get this have English as an option

  David

  You no longer have the correction spell checking capabilities in some languages in Outlook Express 6.0 after you install the Microsoft Office 2007 or Office 2010 system
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/932974

  Outlook Express cannot use the check spelling of MS Word in Office 2007 or newer. A free spell-checking the download is the easiest way to get around this.

  Vampirefo spell check.

  Download from Major Geeks:
  http://www.MajorGeeks.com/download.php?Det=2952

  Or upload it to SnapFile:
  http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/spelloe.html

  You wanted TinySpell or. (Check spelling while typing).

  Download it here:
  http://www.tinyspell.M6.NET/

  Australian English spell checking
  (Also suitable for other English speaking countries).
  http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oespellcheck/

  If you have an earlier version of Office, see this:
  http://www.Outlook-tips.NET/archives/2006/20061228.htm

• After the opening of mail in windows mail disappears from the Inbox... does not appear in the Inbox as open or not.

  Do not have these items on an automatic sorting in specific folders.  Worried if I open files even to just review just important itmes will disappear.  currently the email address is an address rr...... called twc who reviewed the settings on the mail without result files.  Given that can send and receive mail okay... TWC refered to ms for assistance to verify the settings with them because it seems can be internal prob with the computer...  Is there a setting for open and auto delete?   Or do you think it is a virus? If so, how can you chg or delete it this?

  What is Windows Mail? While in the Inbox: view | Current view. Show all Messages is checked?

• Why do emails disappear from my Inbox?

  Emails regularly disappear sometimes less than an hour to be received in my Inbox. I am able to recover through 'search' as much as I know what I'm looking for.

  If the location is not your junk/spam mail folder and that you have no message filters, then my first suspicion is that you accidentally drag / drop these emails.

  Do you use a touch pad on a laptop? According to my experience as a computer tech, accidental actions with a touch-pad can be common with some people and a lot of frustration.

• . Why do messages disappear from the Inbox and Outbox _ @_. ___

  All messages and attachments that I send and the responses I get appear initially but no longer in either after a day or two.  Why is this? Should be grateful for any help, I am far from being a computer expert.  Ken

  There was a new version of Windows Live Mail that came on the back in April that caused some people (including yours truly) problems.  The solution is to save your email and contacts, uninstall Windows Live Mail, and then download and install again.  You can export your emails and contacts to CSV format and you can download Windows Live Mail from

  http://search.Microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?form=MSHOME&setlang=en-us&q=download+%22windows+live+mail%22

  Good luck.

• Lost emails from the Inbox

  I lose emails from my Inbox for the last 3 days.  I'll read an email and it will disappear from the Inbox when I close.  It is not in the Recycle Bin (I'm deleting it).  a few times, I noticed an alert message.  When I press on it to open it to read the entire email disappear from the Inbox.  This is a new twist in the last 3 days.  Any help?

  I ended up gong synchronization then 'Manage synchronization' and changing some of the selections as the delivery format and content of e-mail.  This seems to have fixed the problem right now; so I will say that this issue is resolved.

• I use OUtlook Express for e-mail. Night that suddenly disappeared from the value of a full year of emails - for example from October 2011 to the today October 2012. How can I get back them?

  I have been using Outlook Express 6 for more than 20 years without a single problem so far. Value of a full year of emails has disappeared all of a sudden my box but all e-mail messages seem to be always in place of my sent folder.

  How can I recover these e-mails Inbox?

  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