Re: corrupt dbx file

From: Steve Cochran (scochran_at_oehelp.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:53:19 -0500

Sorry, I missed that last part.

Typically the OE user has Norton or McAfee set to scan email and background
compaction enabled by default and that is just a recipe for disaster.
That's why I emphasize backing up so much. Most people think their
computers and files will live forever.

cheers,

steve

"Alias" <aka@maskedandanonymous.com> wrote in message
news:38j8qsF5q2ncaU1@individual.net...
> Notice I said that I back up regularly and for just for that reason. I
back
> up to a separate partition and to a second hard drive.
>
> Alias
>
> "Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote
>
> >I had my system crash in the middle of compaction due to a hardware
> >problem.
> > I lost two folders. If I had not backed up I would have likely not
> > recovered the messages.
> >
> > Ever had a hard drive fail? I have had several. Again, if things
hadn't
> > been backed up, they'd have been lost.
> >
> > Your luck should not be a guideline for most users.
> >
> > steve
> >
> > "Alias" <aka@maskedandanonymous.com> wrote in message
> > news:38j7opF5iqp35U1@individual.net...
> >> Hasn't happened to me since April, 97 but, then again, I compact
> > regularly,
> >> don't store my messages in default folders, never let a folder get over
> >> 100MB and, yes, I back up very regularly anyway ;-)
> >>
> >> Alias
> >>
> >> "Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote
> >>
> >> > Just to echo what Bruce said, if you value your email, back it up.
OE
> > is
> >> > well-known for wiping out the message store.
> >> >
> >> > steve
> >> >
> >> > "surfer100" <surfer100@outhere.com> wrote in message
> >> > news:OltD87cHFHA.3376@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> >> >> My thanks to everyone who posted info.
> >> >>
> >> >> In the end I could not recover more than a few messages from my
> > father's
> >> >> corrupted OE folder. As a workaround I found that I had a folder in
> >> >> my
> >> >> Outlook of all our emails. So, I imported that folder into my OE,
> > copied
> >> >> that new dbx to a cd, copied that to my father's computer, put it in
> > his
> >> > OE
> >> >> dbx storage area, renamed folders.dbx to folders.old to force OE to
> >> >> recognize it.
> >> >>
> >> >> And that worked, so now all is well. One nice side note is that we
> >> > realized
> >> >> how many emails we had been sending each other over the years.
> >> >>
> >> >> Email is good.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> "surfer100" <surfer100@outhere.com> wrote in message
> >> >> news:42212283$0$49838$45beb828@newscene.com...
> >> >> > My father saved all his emails from me in a folder that grew to be
> > just
> >> >> > under 30 mb. When he tried to add some more emails a while back
the
> >> >> > folder
> >> >> > froze and would no longer open.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I tried using DBXtract and Magallan on this dbx file. Both
extract
> >> >> > successfully about 50 messages from 2000/2001, but not from later
> >> > years.
> >> >> > OE
> >> >> > properties said their were about 400 messages in total.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Is there anything else I should try?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>

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