Inbox messages in Outlook Express 6 all gone

Entered my OE this morning and found all the inbox messages have gone but
they were still there last night, can someone tell me what will be the cause.
Thanks!

You may find a hidden file that is the old inbox, called Inbox.??? It is
generally in the Windows\Application Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express folder. The Identity has a Globally Unique IDentifier or {GUID}
The one you are using now will be called 'Inbox.DBX'
There exist utilities to recover data from these old OE files.
(not free)
DBXtract: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
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Mark L. Ferguson


"Marcock" wrote:

> Entered my OE this morning and found all the inbox messages have gone but
> they were still there last night, can someone tell me what will be the cause.
> Thanks!

Dear Mark, thanks for your guidiance but is there any other free of charge
method to recovery my Inbox.DBX file? Furthermore, can you tell me how it
happened, is my computer being infected by virus or by some other invaders.
Thanks again.
Marcock

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> You may find a hidden file that is the old inbox, called Inbox.??? It is
> generally in the Windows\Application Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook
> Express folder. The Identity has a Globally Unique IDentifier or {GUID}
> The one you are using now will be called 'Inbox.DBX'
> There exist utilities to recover data from these old OE files.
> (not free)
> DBXtract: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
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>
>
> "Marcock" wrote:
>
> > Entered my OE this morning and found all the inbox messages have gone but
> > they were still there last night, can someone tell me what will be the cause.
> > Thanks!

No, I doubt this is a virus problem. A too full inbox causes this. I know of
no free utility do save these, the same site has a less easy to use app for
$7. http://www.oehelp.com/
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"Marcock" wrote:

> Dear Mark, thanks for your guidiance but is there any other free of charge
> method to recovery my Inbox.DBX file? Furthermore, can you tell me how it
> happened, is my computer being infected by virus or by some other invaders.
> Thanks again.
> Marcock
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
>
> > You may find a hidden file that is the old inbox, called Inbox.??? It is
> > generally in the Windows\Application Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook
> > Express folder. The Identity has a Globally Unique IDentifier or {GUID}
> > The one you are using now will be called 'Inbox.DBX'
> > There exist utilities to recover data from these old OE files.
> > (not free)
> > DBXtract: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
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> >
> > Mark L. Ferguson
> >
> >
> > "Marcock" wrote:
> >
> > > Entered my OE this morning and found all the inbox messages have gone but
> > > they were still there last night, can someone tell me what will be the cause.
> > > Thanks!

Hi Mark, thanks very much. I will not bother to recover those e-mail messages
in my laptop since I have got the other desk top backup. Also thanks for
telling me that this might be caused by the too full Inbox and I'll watch out
for the inbox folder capacity.
Best regards/Marcock

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> No, I doubt this is a virus problem. A too full inbox causes this. I know of
> no free utility do save these, the same site has a less easy to use app for
> $7. http://www.oehelp.com/
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> "Marcock" wrote:
>
> > Dear Mark, thanks for your guidiance but is there any other free of charge
> > method to recovery my Inbox.DBX file? Furthermore, can you tell me how it
> > happened, is my computer being infected by virus or by some other invaders.
> > Thanks again.
> > Marcock
> >
> > "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
> >
> > > You may find a hidden file that is the old inbox, called Inbox.??? It is
> > > generally in the Windows\Application Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook
> > > Express folder. The Identity has a Globally Unique IDentifier or {GUID}
> > > The one you are using now will be called 'Inbox.DBX'
> > > There exist utilities to recover data from these old OE files.
> > > (not free)
> > > DBXtract: http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
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> > >
> > > Mark L. Ferguson
> > >
> > >
> > > "Marcock" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Entered my OE this morning and found all the inbox messages have gone but
> > > > they were still there last night, can someone tell me what will be the cause.
> > > > Thanks!

If everything else fails if you cannot find your messages back, have a
look at Foxtract.
This tool scans your corrupted dbx file and will extract your e-mails,
even if the trees are corrupted (Outlook Express uses tree structures to
retrieve the messages).

This tool is free, GPL licensed, the source code is freely available.

--> http://code.google.com/p/foxtract


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