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• Outlook Express E-Mail lost

  Recently, my computer crashed and gave a blue screen. I had a local computer repair company, to repair it for me. They ran a virus scan Ad-Aware and my Outlook Express mail was lost. To get my email Outlook Express return account, I had to open a new account, not having my old e-mail messages. How can I recover my old Inbox and sent folders messages?

  If you are using Vista, the messages are stored as eml files, then you will get *.eml.  If you use OE, then messages are stored in dbx files and you will need to search for *.dbx.  Seewww.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 andwww.oehelp.com/backup.aspx .  My DBXpress program (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) may be able to help to retrieve messages if you use OE (but it won't help with Winmail).
   
  Steve
   
  "Donald Cannon" wrote in message News: 811371 b 7-b904-48f2-900 a-d43dae815293...

  Recently, my computer crashed and gave a blue screen. I had a local computer repair company, to repair it for me. They ran a virus scan Ad-Aware and my Outlook Express mail was lost. To get my email Outlook Express return account, I had to open a new account, not having my old e-mail messages. How can I recover my old Inbox and sent folders messages?

• Re: Outlook Express, I've lost the Outbox, sent and Delete

  first of all, I am very poor with computers, and I use Outlook Express for my e-mail.  I lost the sent, Outbox and delete.  I need people, and although I know not easy to put back them, how can I do?  I don't know even how I made them disappear!     I went in the view and even aid tools and leader, but still I can't find out what it takes to put those back on top of my outlook express.  These elements fit under tools in the upper part.  All this makes sense?  I don't even know the right terminology so I hope someone can understand me.  Thank you.

  Here is the Vista forums.

  And Vista Windows Mail, not Outlook Express.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?DG=Microsoft.public.outlookexpress.General&cat=en_us_67ae557e-CEEA-4691-9CF6-efbe673e7b70&lang=en&CR=us

  Discussions in microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

  They will help you in the Outlook discussion group to express above.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• I accidentally cut the power when in files outlook express compacting and lost a few files. How can I recover these files without a back-up?

  Usuing Widows XP

  First thing to check is your trash, bak files that are backups of dbx files, that are made before the compaction.  See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 if there is no file bak then your only chance at recovery is DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) which has an excerpt from disc feature that will analyze the entire hard drive for messages disk clusters and if they are still on the hard drive, it will recover them.

  Steve

• recover email lost in outlook express 6 upgrade

  my computer automatically upgraded to outlook express 6 and lost all my emails from the old outlook express. any info on how to retrieve them would be great

  It seems that your OE message store can become corrupt and Windows creates a new. McAfee and Norton analysis e-mail used to be the #1 guilty, but no analysis emails can cause these days.

  You can be the GROUND if you have never backed up your messages, but we'll see if there is something on your machine, we can come back. Check the following, but do nothing before posting back.

  1: check the trash for the bak files. If they are there, note the date of creation.

  2: Check if you have more than one identity in OE. File | Identities | Manage identities. Is there more than one, or just the one you have now?

  3: select Show files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder Options icon | Opinion, or in Windows Explorer. Tools | Folder options | View. After selecting the button to show hidden files and folders, search, and search for *.dbx

  Post back with the results of these three tasks. If you have no chance, your only chance to possibly retrieve messages is with this tool.

  DBXpress
  http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/default.aspx

  You may need to run in the extract from disk Mode if its normal recovery mode fails to find lost messages.

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

• lost email from Outlook express

  I write in the name of the customer.

  Here is the original client message.

  "I have prepared this in word & pasted here for it to be faster." I have windows XP & outlook illicitedes'm having problems with outlook express. I lost d ' assign e-mails from 2007 to 2 September 2011.  I know that I do not remove them. The problems I encounter are manifold.  When I send a mail, I get an error & instead of going into my box sent out to in my Outbox. Here, I must send again & that move to another box (Inbox) out of the shipping box or it will keep returning the message out. I can't move it to the sent box it will not allow him. now, I have another problem. After all this my mail is not going out at all now. I can receive but not answer. My biggest concern is return all these emails who disappeared on 2 September 2011 in the morning. they are important as long as it had to do with the legal procedures. There are approximately 1 500 e-mails all the way from June 2007 to September 2, 2011. If you go to the bottom of the list of my emails, you will see that I received emails from September 2, 2011 after what happened and then the one that precedes it is June 2007. I hope you can help me because I need these emails in return.

  You too have reached the limits of the OE dbx 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 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  

• How to recover lost Outlook express emails?

  We had to wipe everything off of our computer and use the recovery disk to reinstall the computer.  Now, I forgot to save all my outlook express emails.  Is there anyway to get back them?

  Thank you!
  Patrice

  I'm sorry, but once you do a recovery back to the factory settings, all is lost.

  The hard drive is wiped.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?DG=Microsoft.public.outlookexpress.General&cat=en_us_67ae557e-CEEA-4691-9CF6-efbe673e7b70&lang=en&CR=us

  Discussions in microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

  And for other issues of XP:

  XP discussion groups:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?DG=Microsoft.public.WindowsXP.General

  Link above is to the XP newsgroups.

  There is a list of groups of discussion XP to the bottom of the left column.

  The XP "general"(lien ci-dessus) and XP "Help and Support" Newsgroups are widely read / used. ".

  You get the help you need there.

  Here is the Vista Forums.

  See you soon

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• I lost access to my e-mail account on Outlook Express

  I lost access to my e-mail account to Outlook Express. How to recover my account to outlook express?

  OE has not changed for Microsoft Live. Using Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail? If the latter, please ask here. They are completely different programs and I can't help you with any program 'Live '.

  Windows Live Mail Forum
  http://windowslivehelp.com/forums.aspx?ProductID=15

• Upgrade to Microsoft 2010 and have now lost all my Outlook Express emails!

  Hello

  Yesterday, I upgraded my pc from 2007 to 2010 from microsoft, I had no idea that outlook express is no longer taken in charge & a so don't had not saved anything express before the upgrade.

  I used two Outlook + outlook express to run 2 separate email accounts.  How Outlook works well and moved all my old mails/contacts.  Express however is not found, I can't open it.

  I have installation the other account on the new perspectives, he transferred the emails from the last 30 days, which lie on the mail server, but nothing beyond that, plus all of my files are missing & what is the most important!

  Please help me, I got hundreds of emails that are very important to me and I am in despair that they have all been lost.

  Thank you, Emma

  If you use Windows XP (which I assume you're OE does not work on any latest system) then by installing Office does NOT remove Outlook Express.

  He can't because Outlook Express is part of Internet Explorer, which is part of Windows.

  I think that Outlook has replced just the icon of EO for mail.

  Do a search for msimn.exe

  You should find it in c:\program files\outlook express.

  Then you can add back a shortcut on your desktop.

  If you find my answer helpful, please click the button "Vote as helpful"! Thank you!
  My Windows Blog

• Outlook Express - LOST Email Contacts. Help?

  My computer was working very slowly I did a restore to system (F10) factory. Then, I realized after that although it is very very fast now, I lost EVERYTHING. After playing a bit, I found a lot of files in 'C: Drive', which included bookmarks, photos and many documents. One thing which is a MAJOR problem of e-mail contacts.

  I've looked everywhere for contacts and I can't seem to find them anywhere. Does anyone know much about it?

  You can ask your question on the link below as a problem with Outlook Express:

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/xpnetwork/threads?filter=answered

• After repairing my computer, I lost all my Outlook Express contacts.

  Original title: lost addresses email, file

  After a repair, I lost all my addresses in Outlook Express (6), as well has a record of correspondence I put in place to keep old emails from family, friends, Church, etc. How find/resurrect these things?

  My provider has helped me regain the email through Outlook Express (6), but it said that I needed help from Microsoft to regain access to my address e-mail & correspondence folder.

  Hello

  Please follow the steps below.

  Method 1:

  Search folder for *.wab using the link below.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/308895

  Method 2:

  Once you have located the address book, try to import the address book into Outlook Express using the link below.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/175017

  See also the below mentioned link.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/172689

• After removing Office 2010 Trial, I lost my address book Outlook Express and cannot open emails.

  I installed a free trial of office 2010, but he did not understand the editor which was what I wanted.   I uninstalled it now I lost my address book in outlook express and can't open saved emails.

  I can't find my software or backup and think that I lost when I moved.

  Lynn

  Yes, you will need to reinstall Office 2000. When you installed Office 2010 trial, he removed Office 2000. Once you get the cd, reinstall Office and should be back up and running.

  I can't offer any assistance with address number address Outlook Express however.

  Thank you...

• Lost my outlook express 6, how do I get it back?

  Lost my outlook express 6, how do I get it back? Happens if I turned off my PC and sometimes medication back with all my lost addresses and emails. I perfer to any other email outlook so please help!

  Define lost. The shortcut icon is missing?

  Right click on the desktop | New | Shortcut. Navigate to "c:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe". Click next | Click Finish.  It will be a new shortcut on the desktop.

  Outlook and Outlook Express are different programs, so please watch your shortcut.

  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

• Help with emails lost on the version of outlook express 6

  Outlook express deleted at random 2 years worth of my emails. Is there anyway to get back them. ? They are not in the deleted section

  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 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