Re: XP Crash During Folder Compact, DBX's hosed...
From: Jim Pickering (jimp_at_mvps.0rg)
Date: 11/17/04
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:51:12 -0800
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-- Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express Please reply only to newsgroup. "Jim Phillips" <japhilps@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:822decac.0411170901.380242c6@posting.google.com... >I maintain a fairly elaborate folder structure in OE. A week or so > ago, I performed a "cleanup" by deleting many useless emails and > restructuring the folders significantly. Then I performed a "Compact > All Folders" operation. > > During the Compact operation, my Windows XP machine crashed. That is, > the screen went black and the system rebooted itself. After reboot, > the "System Has Recovered from a Serious Error" message was displayed. > > Upon starting OE after the reboot, my Folders.dbx had been corrupted, > as the folder structure was gone. Strangely, email approx. 5 months > old and older still existed in some folders, others most were > completely empty (59Kb dbx's). Other OE Identities and their assoc. > message stores were not affected... > > You could call me a "power user" of OE, having used it for years > without *major* incident. I've also implemented best practices (like > turning off backg compaction & compacting Offline) on behalf of > clients. I've also successfully used DBExtract to recover email from > "misplaced" or deleted stores... > > Unfortunately, my lost emails appear to be gone for good. I searched > the hard drive for stray dbx's or dbt's but found none. It's almost > like the lost data existed only in memory at the time of the crash. I > had a recent backup of my email, so only 2 wks worth was lost. Be nice > to get them back though... > > I wonder if I had immediately performed a "system restore" if that > might have restored my OE message store... Also, what's the > possibility that there are temp db*'s that DBXpress might be able to > recover from some "scratch" area used during the OE folder compaction? > > I'd also offer this advice, although it may seem odd. I suggest that > one should backup his OE store prior to compaction, especially if > significant folder restructuring has taken place. Then, with a copy > safely tucked away, compact the folders and backup again to realize > the reduction in Store size. Compaction does seem to be a common theme > among those reporting lost email or OE crashes...
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