Re: OE 6 Contents of most folders disappeared

From: Steve Cochran (scochran_at_oehelp.com)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:10:20 -0400

The file size indicates that the inbox is empty. The 1-2 meg files may or
may not have messages in them, but if DBXtract didn't find them, I suspect
they are gone.

DBXpress in Disk mode might get the messages from the disk clusters, but its
a crapshoot on whether or not it will, as the clusters may have been
overwritten.

steve

"Harmon Koeltz" <koeltzh@spammenot.bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:eZ0l$V8tEHA.2788@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hello. Continuation of an earlier thread: I ran a compact all folders
and
> my computer hung up. I powered down and
> restarted. Now the contents of most, but not all, of my folders are gone,
> including some personal folders and my inbox. I have done a search for
*.dbx
> files and found many more than the folders I use in OE6. There are two for
> inbox: one is 137 kb in size, the other is 2.48 meg.
> Is there a way to recover the contents of these folders? I'm running
XP
> Home Service Pack 2.
> I have "found " all my .dbx files and saved them to a new folder. I
ran
> DBXtract but although it tells me it has extracted to my OE 6 folders,only
> newly received emails are extracted. Nothing for any other folder. The
.dbx
> files I found have something in them, some from 1 to 2.5 meg. I have also
> tried importing.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> thanks
>
> Harmon Koeltz
>
>

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