Re: How to recover messages.

I would try again to manually import them using the method in the last paragraph on this page www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (which is similar to what Bruce suggested). But I wouldn't expect much out of a file that small.

steve

"Peter" <Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9EDCF465-5571-4E49-AA3E-C84ADE5E80FF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Steve.
I opened it with Notepad and sure enough at least some of the emails were
there. There were some strange characters as well.
How do I recover? What's next? I couldn't find anything in the OE help.
Peter
"Steve Cochran" wrote:

Open the file with Notepad and look to see if there is anything like a
message piece in it. If not, then the file has no messages in it.

See also www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 for message recovery techniques.

steve

"Peter" <Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7665854B-4C8C-4226-AF54-2CB9FBE12671@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks Jim
> I tried the strategy suggested by Bruce Hagen but nothing showed up > even
> though the file size is 187k. I restored them from backup drive using
> Datakeeper to a CD then copied them from the CD to the computer. How > can i
> tell if there is a read only attribute?
>
> "Jim Pickering" wrote:
>
>> Did you copy the backed up files to the same computer before >> attempting
>> the
>> import? Networking computers often causes a failure to import >> correctly.
>> If the files were copied at any time to a CD/DVD, a Read-Only >> attribute
>> was
>> set during the copy process which must be cleared after you've copied
>> them
>> to a folder location on the same computer you wish to do the import >> to.
>> -- >> Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps
>> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
>> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be >> helped.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Peter" <Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:F5350A18-64A5-4F83-B6DE-96E3FB41259E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >I copied a mail folder with about 10 unread emails in it using cut >> >and
>> >paste
>> > to the desktop. My computer crashed but I had backed up the mail >> > folder
>> > file
>> > on the desktop to another computer. When I try to restore the folder
>> > with
>> > the
>> > emails using OE6 on the other computer nothing shows up. Any
>> > suggestions?
>> > Thanks
>> > Peter
>>
>>


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