The .dbx files are notorious for that. The nice thing about Outlook is that it stores all your info in 1 .pst file, this file can be backed up, moved, imported, exported and archived without problems. (Usually) ;-/ You can also move selected messages to a .pst and remove them from your main file. Then if you need to refer to them just open that new .pst, look up what you need and close it again. That's how I archive the PDML stuff, 1 .pst for every month.
I just had one customer lose ALL their stuff with OE, they created a new profile and 'moved' all the .dbx files. They never worked again! They use Outlook now. Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Cassino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 4:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: MX OUtlook Express Question > > > Thanks, Don - I did try to import the files (both into Outlook > and Outlook > Express) but the inbox.dbx file is not recognized by either. I > did save the > old folders in case there is anything else to try - but the 'old folders' > are the ones that got moved and apparently corrupted. > > I just upgraded to Office 2002 from 97 and includes Outlook - > maybe I should > look at switching over to it now. > > - MCC > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo, MI > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 5:20 PM > Subject: RE: MX OUtlook Express Question > > > > In my experience with OE I think toast it is. > > If you had gone to "import/export" you could have imported > > the old stuff into the new folders. > > Probably too late now, unless you still have a copy of the old folders. > > I don't let my customers use OE any more because of such things. > > They use Outlook because the datbase structure is more portable > > and easier to repair. > > Your addresses are stored in 'Windows Address Book', they > > should be OK as they are in a different location from the mail. > > > > Don > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Mark Cassino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 4:08 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: OT: MX OUtlook Express Question > >> > >> > >> (OR: Cross Linked and Bummed Out) > >> > >> A question for the computer savvy - > >> > >> I have the .DBX files that Outlook Express uses to store messages in a > >> folder called 'mail' in 'my documents' (not the default location.) > >> > >> To my horror, I fired up OE this afternoon and found no mail - > everything > >> was gone except for the handful of new messages for the PDML. > >> > >> Looking around - I realized that I had accidentally copied the > >> 'mail' folder > >> into a neighboring folder. Apparently OE made a new 'mail' folder > >> and just > >> started over... > >> > >> So, I copied the contents of the relocated folder back into the 'mail' > >> folder and figured I was good to go - but unfortunately > >> everything was they > >> except my 'inbox'. There was an 'inbox.dbx' file that was > >> huge,but it was > >> not being read. Looking closer, I realized that the 'deleted > >> items' folder, > >> which should of been huge, was pretty small. Everything else > >> seems fine - my > >> 'rules' are intact, the other folders are OK. > >> > >> I found some software that would extract the contents of the > OE .dbx mail > >> files. Running it against 'inbox.dbx' showed that the contents of the > >> purpored 'inbox' file were really my deleted files. And the contents of > >> Deleted Items.DBX seems to be just a truncated version of the > >> same file. I > >> ran the utility against all the other folders, but no sign of my inbox > >> stuff. I also ran a utility called WinUndelete which has been > a real life > >> saver in the past, when I have accidentally deleted files - and > >> it shows no > >> deleted version of inbox.dbx (or any deleted .dbx files at > all...) (This > >> program shows any deleted files that may still be sitting on > the disk.) I > >> did a disk check (this is an NTFS disk) and it found no problems. > >> > >> So... I'm guessing that I'm just SOL on this one - and that somehow in > >> accidentally moving the mail folder (which was possibly in use at > >> the time) > >> my inbox.dbx file got cross linked to my deleted items.dbx > file. Is that > >> plausible? Anything else I could try? > >> > >> Oddly enough - it's not as catastrophic a lose as it might seem, > >> as I have > >> 'sent items' folder and address book intact - so I've been able > >> to get back > >> to people on the few pending transactions I have. I printed hard > >> copies of > >> any receipts etc just last week to get ready to do taxes, though > >> I lost an > >> handful that just came in these last few days. If there is a way > >> to get some > >> of this back, that would be nice. > >> > >> Any thoughts, or am I toast? > >> > >> - MCC > >> > >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >> Mark Cassino Photography > >> Kalamazoo, MI > >> www.markcassino.com > >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > >> > > >
