Re: decompressing e-mails

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Some antivirus programs/antispam programs can create a DBX file that is filled with zeroes, and thus contains nothing that can be recovered. Try closing Outlook Express, and make a copy of Inbox.dbx and place it in a new folder you create on your Desktop. Then right click on Inbox.dbx, selecting "Open With" and choose Wordpad and take a look through the file to see if you can see any pieces of the missing messages, or if the file only contains "zeroes."

If you use DBXtract in the Recover mode, you may have a problem. Try it again, making sure you do not have a check mark in the Recover mode box. Although if it is all zeroes in the file, nothing can recover your messages. Your antivirus/antispam program has "killed" them.
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Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6

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"Joe" <adcoxmanagement@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Z4CdneHDD5-E_f_fRVn-pA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Mr. Pickering, hello again and good morning.

I did copy the files to a new folder with DBXtract. I don't have any other files labelled Inbox.

I tried again this morning and got the same result.

"Jim Pickering" <jimp@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OH9kBcvQFHA.1932@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Did you copy the Inbox.dbx file to the folder you put DBXtract into? Do you also have a file called Inbox(1).dbx or any other DBX files with a number appended?

Stopping compacting will almost guarantee that you will corrupt a DBX file, making messages in that dbx file unreadable. Much better to let it complete without touching the computer while the compacting is taking place. For more info on compacting, see this link:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm#compact
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Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6

Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped. No one gets paid to help here, and the response rate from those that are helped is less than 4-5%. If that were how medical advancements were made we would all have died years ago. Thanks.


"Joe" <adcoxmanagement@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:HvudnWYkxcXiW_zfRVn-vw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Just one. I downloaded the program and it works great except it isn't picking up anything from the Inbox except new messages.

Could this be because I cancelled out of the program? Should I let it compact the files and try again?

Also, is there any way to stop it from compacting the files (stop if from asking or offering the option).

Thanks.

Joe


"Jim Pickering" <jimp@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23F6OG9uQFHA.3336@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Glad to help.  If you have further problems, please post back.
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Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
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"Joe" <adcoxmanagement@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Rf2dnRhcWNrONvzfRVn-jg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Mr. Pickering, just wanted to thank you for all your help.

Thank you again.

Joe


"Jim Pickering" <jimp@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O%232B1HuQFHA.3716@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Try using DBXtract from www.oehelp.com for getting the messages from the damaged Inbox.dbx. Make a copy of Inbox.dbx in another folder, download DBXtract to the same folder and use it within that folder to see what it can find for you. You can drag/drop and recovered messages into a folder in Outlook Express (although I would strongly recommend using another folder than the Inbox, which since it is the most frequently written to, deleted from, etc., is most prone to corruption).
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Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
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