Note - OE will, as soon as it references a newsgroup and has online access to that group, drop all expired headers. The only way to see old headers is not to go online
Then - without the body, what's the point of having the headers. But - what's really annoying is if you've downloaded most of the bodies of a multi-part binary and then the missing ones get posted after the server has dropped many of the parts you downloaded, then going online to get the late posted parts immediately loses you the early dropped parts. I believe there are facilities for IE6 such as dbxtract that will create individual files of messages outside of IE, and then you can re-import them while and restart OE remaining offline - but it may not work for newsgroups. Google and you may be lucky JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Houseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 2:56 PM Subject: Re: OE 6 news messages disappear > "Updating headers" means that the local list of news item headers is > synchronized with the available items on the news server. Since a news > server expires and removes older news items, the synchronization removes the > expired item headers from your local storage. A downloaded news item cannot > exist without the corresponding header, so those were removed. > > Since you do regular backups of this machine (at least one in the past year, > we would hope), restore your OE database from backups, then start OE with > the Internet connection disabled and save the news items to other storage. > > There are lots of Outlook Express disaster recovery programs intended to > restore E-mail. I think it's unlikely that any will restore deleted news > items, but feel free to browse: > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=outlook+express+message+recovery > > Carl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Daniel Wysocki > Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: OE 6 news messages disappear > > Have not used OE for reading newsgroups for over a year. When I went to the > newsgroup and OE updated the headers, I lost all my old messages that I had > downloaded. I have OE configured to only d/l headers, "delete messages x > days" is not checked, i.e. disabled. as well as "delete read messages" is > disabled. I can tell from the size of the *.dbx file for the newsgroup, that > it must contain the old messages. However, I can not get OE to display the > headers so that I can read them. > > Any ideas how to get the downloaded messages from a year ago to show so they > can be read??? > > Daniel Wysocki > Twin*.*Computers > Fast Reliable Wallet-Friendly > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned > LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: > http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html > > > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
