ok, I'm a bit behind so am going to send this along just in case. what you need to do (and i can only hope you can), is: 1. open O.E. 2. go to the tools menu and then to options and enter on it. 3. in here control tab to the maintence tab, in here you should have a button marked "save folder" or something like this. enter on that, and shift tab into the edit box with the huge path in it, (this is where your folders are stored, hit home, hit control shift and end to select the whole thing and control c to copy it. 4. paste the address you just copied into note pad.
now then this is where we start the preyare wheel spinning and hope the planets are in a good alignment! this should be the location where the database files that hold your messages and the like were being stored (if it turns out to not be the case we will attack that if/when we need to) so: 5. get your backup drive running 6. depending on how your backups are stored, will make this tricky, if its a image, it will probably be an iso image, if so you will need a application to "mount" or give you access to, the information stored in the image, if its in zip files youll need to unzip the one that has your c drive on it, with the main sections in it. (look at that path, it will tell you what you need to find and have access to) if you have a direct copy of the drive, thats phonomal, replace the C at the beginning of your path with the backup drive letter and paste it into the run dialog box whatever means you need to employ, you need to make it so you can get to that place in the backup where your files are stored that corrasponds with the original path you copied! 6. when you get to this location, copy all the .dbm files you will find there, there will be a number of them! 7. Now, make sure that you totally close out O.E. not minimized, not held in reserve in the system tray, closed! 8. go to the location on your original path that you copied (if you changed the C: to the backup drive letter, change it back now) and paste the files into this location, and say yes to all the replacements (xp has that nice yes to all, use it!) 9. when all has copied, close out the backup drive, and restart your computer. 10. open O.E. and take a look, it should have all your email files up to the point of your last backup in place now. sorry i don't know how to get more back, a tool like disk digger, or more superior file retrieval tools might be able to get them, but i don't know and can garentee nothing i used to use a application called E-backup that is available from: www.jfwlite.com/programs along with the jaws scripts there for it (yes there still working and have been up to jaws 13 on windows XP) it makes a seperate backup in a single file that it (the application which i kept on a disk) can install along with your internet explorer favorites folder. and makes email retrieval a much faster and simpler deal. HTH, inthane -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Major e mail issue with outlook express I went to the web mail and the messages were not there. Thanks. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sugar" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Major e mail issue with outlook express > hi Rich > I would go to the web if I was you, most likely they are there. I don't > know what to tell you, I use outlook express and love it, but i also use > xp, but with jaws 11,and windows office 2007 on my lap top and windows > office 2010,jaws 11,xp and express on my lap top > As long as it works great for me, I am not changeing. > Good luck and hope it gets fixed for you. > Sugar > > 'Real tears are not those that fall from your eyes and cover your face, > but that fall from your heart and cover your soul.' > ~Blessings be poured upon you- > Sugar > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rich" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 7:18 PM > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Major e mail issue with outlook express > > >>I have XP and 13.0. >> My pc froze up as I was trying to start up my e mail in internet >> explorer. >> No keys worked so I hit the alt/control/delete key, and nothing worked. >> So I had to hard boot the pc off. >> When I turned it back on and went to O.E.,the in box said "closed" and, >> my in box and spam folder were empty. >> There was nothing in the deleted folder either. >> I do run a back up with McAfee. >> What would be the best way to recover these important messages? >> >> I have not checked on the web on my web mail account through AT&T yet. >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> Rich >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
