Hi Gerald, This is an example of why I recommend people do not store messages in their e-mail client. First, have you tried re-booting the computer, then re-starting Outlook Express? Having said that, there are a couple of things that you can try. 1. While in Outlook Express, go to tools, then options, and then the maintenance tab. 2. Tab until you come to the store folder button, and spacebar that. 3. Tab until Jaws reads the file path for your message store, and copy it to the clipboard. 4. Close Outlook Express, and then paste the address in the run dialogue, and hit enter. This will open the location where your .dbx folders are stored, and you can look for the folders that are missing, by name.
If this fails you, which it may, try using Recuva to recover the messages. It can be found at: http://www.jaws-users.com/programs/ It is item #69. HTH, Rick Justice Tomorrow's another day, another way! and if tomorrow never comes, problem solved! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Levy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 7:11 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Recovering Lost Outlook Express Messages This is certainly a strange one. Yesterday, as I always do at the end of the month, I performed a compact all folders procedure in Outlook Express on my XP system. I have 82 folders in various categories which hold all the messages I have decided to save. But for some reason, all the messages in the last 12 folders on the list were somehow permanently deleted, because they were all there before I performed the compact all procedure. The first 67 folders appear to be intact, and I did not lose any messages from them. Is there any way to recover the lost messages from the last 12 folders? Or are they gone forever? I already tried a system restore to no avail. Thanks. Gerald 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/
