Re: Inbox corruption, any hope?

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From: Michael Santovec (michael_santovec_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:36:10 -0700

For a corrupted Inbox (OE5+):
- Close Outlook Express
- Rename the file Inbox.dbx to Inboxold.dbx You can use Start, Find (or Search), Files or
Folders, Inbox.dbx to find it. On Win2000 you need enable the display of Hidden or System
files in the folder options and XP you need to use the advanced options to find Hidden or
System files.
- Open Outlook Express again.
- It will create a new empty Inbox.
- The following program may be able to recover some of the messages from the Inboxold.dbx
file.
  DBXtract - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
- You can then open OE and select the Inbox and drag the recovered EML files back into it.

You may also have a corrupted Folders.dbx file.
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/errors.htm#foldersdbx 

-- 
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Al puzzuoli" <alpuzz@comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:MPG.1bd4b1626943776e98969a@news.giganews.com...
> This morning, I was happily reading email, life was good.  For whatever
> reason, we had a brief power flicker-- not enough to do any damage or so
> I thought.  When my machine rebooted, I went back to OE to continue
> reading my mail.  Imagine my surprise when I opened my inbox and found
> it empty.  Along with my inbox, I now have a number of cool new folders,
> search folder 1, search folder 2, etc.  As far as I can tell, there are
> 30 of these, each containing a random number of messages.  However, if I
> attempt to open any messages in these folders, I get the following:
>
> Outlook Express encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this
> message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try
> again.
>
> I have over 9 gb free on my machine so disk space is obviously not the
> issue.
>
> I guess at this point I have two questions:
> 1.  Is there any hope of salvaging anything if so, how?
> 2.  If not, then I want to completely blow away my main identity and
> start with a fresh, reliable message store.  Is the best way to do this
> simply to delete it using the OE command and then make a new identity,
> or are there other steps I should take as well?
>
> Thanks for any info,
>
> --Al
>

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