If you use Outlook Express, then sooner or later there will be a problem.
Unfortunately, I know this all to well.
Help is here:
http://www.oemailrecovery.com/recover-outlook-express.html
Hopefully this will help sombody today. I hate to see grown people cry.
bob3160,
Thanks for this information. I have bookmaked it, read it over and sure will refer some of my ISP customers with O.E. issues such as these to this URL. Makes my job much easier ;D. Thanks again.
Thanks Neil62
It makes me happy when one of these finds can help some one.
I’ve posted a few other goodies here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=9;action=display;threadid=4312
Hopefully you can use some othe them.
Bob,
Speaking about inbox recovery tool I used this software and is the best for all my email and windows setting backup
SpeedyPC
That looks like an excellent program. A little pricey expecially with the ability to back up restricted data but, I guess you get what you pay for.
Thanks
In OE, the most vulnerable folder is the Inbox, should OE crash for any reason, it often corrupts the In Box (thats the one that is usually open when it crashes). When OE is restarted, because the Inbox is a special OE Folder it is re-created.
There are many different tools to try and recover data from corrupted OE .dbx files, they don’t always recover everything.
Currently there are only 4 emails in my Inbox folder, don’t use your Inbox folder to store emails. Use it as temporary point prior to moving it to a folder for that type of email. Such as Business, Personal, Newsletters, etc.
Not only does this make emails easier to find, if your Inbox does get corrupt, not much is lost and then you can try your backup strategy - the recovery tool - don’t have the tool as your only backup strategy.
David