Re: Tricky .dbxs´...
- From: "Steve Cochran" <scochran@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:37:20 -0500
What Jim said.
The only program that might get the messages is DBXpress. Only it has the extract from disk function (you wasted your money on the other programs. <G>). Its clear the messages are no longer in the files. Your only recourse is to try and extract from the entire hard drive. (do NOT check recover mode). Then see what you get.
steve
"Peter Gutniak" <Peter Gutniak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7490CC35-D4BE-45DA-9769-6CAB277F8A18@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I´ve read all posts in this group and followed the links supplied by PA Bear
and others, but as of yet, none of the suggestions have proven themselves
workable on this particular problem, apart from making my wallet a little
less thick...
Background:
A couple of days ago, suddenly the main part of my email folders were empty.
When viewing Local Folders, it looked as if there still were a lot of mails
in my folder hierarchy, but as I went to one of them seeing it empty and
going back to Local Folder view, the count changed to zero. Puzzled, I
immediately shut OE down and viewed the local mail store with Total
Commander. To my astonishment I could see that most of my dbxs´ were missing.
I then proceeded to start File Scavenger and made a thorough volume search,
only to find dbx files that were some months old. I restored those to a temp
folder and then tried every possible means to extract messages from them,
including using ScanDbx, Advanced OE Recovery and a myriad of others. As I
write this, a full version of DBXpress is searching through the disk to where
I copied whatever dbx files File Scavenger could dig out, to try to extract
what messages that it can, although it seems highly unlikely that it´ll
succeed given the fact that I already tried using it on a couple of dbxs´
that have a file size proving them to contain information, but that Dbxpress
and all others failed to see any messages in. Please note that none of the
programs I´ve tested state that the dbx folders are corrupt. They just say
that the folders are bereft of messages... What´s interesting is that not all
folders were gone, and from some others I could actually extract stuff, for
example from the largest one of them all, the sent folder (now) containing
some 8000 messages and weighing approx. 1.34 Gb.
I´ve spoken to both Microsoft Support here in Sweden, as well as in the US,
and gotten nowhere. I fully understand that MS doesn´t have any ready-made
tools available to extract files, but I´d be rather puzzled if they at least
didn´t have a coding environment that would enable you to see the innards of
a dbx. To illustrate what I mean, one can look at Access. When viewing a db
file with for example notepad, everything´s scrambled. If you open up Access,
you´re allowed to see every field in the file, regardless of its contents.
Even though it only contains mumbo-jumbo, it´s still viewable in a sense.
Also, the third-party vendors must have access to such environments, since
they managed to code their own stuff in the first place! And the only thing I
can hope for now is to be able to extract at least some information in that
way, unless someone very clever comes up with a better idea.
So what I´m really asking for is to be put in contact (email, phone,
courier, carrier pigeon...) with anyone actually having worked on developing
OE, that could explain what tools to use to get hold of at least some of the
information that lies hidden within those dbxs´. That this is important to me
goes without saying, since I have three companies worth of mails in there
that I desperately need.
Backup? Yes, I actually did have a pretty recent one on my second hard drive
until last Wednesday when I needed the space for a specific extremely space
consuming project. My external backup drive was loaned out to a friend, and
when I received it on Thursday evening, I planned doing the backup on Friday
evening. But in the afternoon on Friday, before I was able to do that,
disaster struck... As far as I know, no compacting was prompted at the time
and compacting has in any case failed with the largest folder (sent) for many
months now, saying that the folder is used by another application (which it
to my knowledge never was). I´m using Windows XP Pro SP2 by the way, with the
latest updates on everything and Norton AV 2005 with dbx exception.
I know I´m reaching for straws here, but would really appreciate some tangible help.
Kind regards, Peter Gutniak +46 709 60 90 40 peter @ supreme dot se
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