Lost Outlook Express Emails

pionim · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 5

I am running a online legal forum and my most of the interaction with my clients is through emails.

I am using outlook express for checking and sending emails.

But now, I have lost my emails,

I am still puzzled how it happens.

It was in a flash, the power goes off and when I again switched on the computer and started outlook express it shows only a single email in my inbox folder.

The other emails are there in other folders but inbox folder is having a single email of its own. There was about 1700 emails earlier.

Please help I am in desperate need of my lost emails.

dinfo · Site Admin Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 31

Outlook Express stores emails in a set of .dbx files, maintaining .dbx file for each email folder.

To quickly locate the location where all the dbx files are stored follow the following procedure -

1. Start Outlook Express
2. Click Tools menu
3. Then Select Options...

4. Click on the Maintenance tab
5. Then click on the Store Folder button

A dialog pops up which will display the directory containing all you dbx files.

6. Copy the Complete Location and Open the Folder containing DBX files.
7. Close Outlook Express.
8. Look for the Inbox.dbx and Inbox (1).dbx files.

You will notice the size of Inbox.dbx is greater then the size of Inbox (1).dbx file.

9. Rename Inbox (1).dbx to Inbox (1)-backup.dbx
10. Then Rename Inbox.dbx to Inbox (1).dbx

Restart Outlook Express and you will see all the emails are back in Inbox folder.

Enjoy...