Outlook Express

Hi,

Looking for an Outlook Express expert here.

I closed the OE window recently and a smaller window popped up saying it was compacting my folders. The software froze up and i had to force the computer to shut down and restarted it.

Upon opening up OE (version 6, btw) the inbox shows my subfolders but if you click on most of them, it shows them being empty. Some of them still had the old emails in them but most were empty.

However, if i look in the folder on the c drive where oe keeps the mail folders, you can see the old folders with the emails in them. (ie. you can see the files have many kb of data in them).

So, the question is how do i get the software to re-recognize these files or restore them. I'm concerned that some of the files may have become corrupt when the compacting couldn't complete its task.

Any wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

Computer data:
Toshiba satellite pro 6100
Windows xp service pack 2
2gb HD
768mb ram

thanks

stevo

 

I hate to say it Steve, but data corrupting is the most likely situation here. I would back up the folder containing the DBX files before doing anything (by making a copy on the desktop, etc), and then try renaming"folders.dbx". After that, you may want to run some various dbx recovery programs on a backup of your data files, see what comes up.

Best of luck!

 

Opps, nearly forgot, the official Majorgeeks info on OE corruption can be found here: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=79744