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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Internet / May 2008Outlook Express
Upon startup the otherday , all my inbox messages were deleted .Any way to get them back? How can I prevent this from occuring again?I run a 98 operating system. Look in the Recycle Bin for INBOX.DBX Do a Find on 'inbox' and see what you find. Report back.  SignatureGary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com > Upon startup the otherday , all my inbox messages were deleted .Any way > to > get them back? How can I prevent this from occuring again?I run a 98 > operating system. I don't think that was implemented for Win98, but I may be wrong. steve > Look in the Recycle Bin for INBOX.DBX > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> get them back? How can I prevent this from occuring again?I run a 98 >> operating system. Huh! Didn't think of that. Gonna have to try it. Yup, you're right. No backup during Compacting. Still, it's a good idea for OP to check to see if the file by chance got moved accidentally. Very long shot, but when the next sentence is going to be, "They're gone!", I tend to reach for straws. Then I dig out the good old RTT recovery software. SignatureGary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com >I don't think that was implemented for Win98, but I may be wrong. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >>> get them back? How can I prevent this from occuring again?I run a 98 >>> operating system. They can look for dbt files in the message store directory also. OE in later versions deletes them when it opens, but I'm not sure about Win98. steve > Huh! Didn't think of that. Gonna have to try it. > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >>>> get them back? How can I prevent this from occuring again?I run a 98 >>>> operating system. Why it happens: http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and #4). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality) http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Avoiding Such Corruption in Future: - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local folders created for this purpose. - Empty Deleted Items folder daily. - Disable Background Compacting and frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm - Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause corruption (i.e., loss of messages), it provides no additional protection, and even Symantec says it's not necessary: <QP> Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions. </QP> http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2002111812533106 Signature~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ > Upon startup the otherday , all my inbox messages were deleted .Any way > to > get them back? How can I prevent this from occuring again?I run a 98 > operating system. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 The extract from disk feature of DBXpress will not work in Win98 systems, but the rest of it does. steve > Upon startup the otherday , all my inbox messages were deleted .Any way > to > get them back? How can I prevent this from occuring again?I run a 98 > operating system. What if the disk is moved to a 2K or XP (or Vista) system? Can DBXtract then read directly from the disk? SignatureGary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com > See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 The extract from disk feature of > DBXpress will not work in Win98 systems, but the rest of it does. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> get them back? How can I prevent this from occuring again?I run a 98 >> operating system. DBXtract does not have the extract from disk feature. Only DBXpress (written later and much more powerful) has that option. Yes, you can pull the drive and stick it into a computer with a "higher" then WinMe OS and it the extract from disk will work. Its only the OS that won't handle it. cheers, steve > What if the disk is moved to a 2K or XP (or Vista) system? Can DBXtract > then read directly from the disk? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >>> get them back? How can I prevent this from occuring again?I run a 98 >>> operating system. My mistake. DBXpress, not DBXtract. Well, no matter the recovery software, it shouldn't be run from the same drive where the data is to be recovered. THAT disk shouldn't be used at all, period, until such recovery is done. SignatureGary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com > DBXtract does not have the extract from disk feature. Only DBXpress > (written later and much more powerful) has that option. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >>>> get them back? How can I prevent this from occuring again?I run a 98 >>>> operating system. In an ideal world. Sometimes that is not feasible. steve > My mistake. DBXpress, not DBXtract. Well, no matter the recovery software, > it shouldn't be run from the same drive where the data is to be recovered. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >>>>> get them back? How can I prevent this from occuring again?I run a 98 >>>>> operating system. |
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