DBX Files

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mrpaps

My friend has a problem with old emails. Something happened and all the
emails in a few different folders have disappeared. There were 10 folders
created in the Inbox folder. I used a DBX program to open those dbx files
and it says there are no emails there,but the actual DBX file is 32mb.Any
help here? Thanks.
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Try posting this in an Outlook Express news group - this is not one of them.
Outlook is a part of Microsoft Office and is what this group supports.
Outlook Express is a part of Internet Explorer and has its own news groups.

You can also find some good Outlook Express information here:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com


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After furious head scratching, mrpaps asked:

| My friend has a problem with old emails. Something happened and all
| the emails in a few different folders have disappeared. There were 10
| folders created in the Inbox folder. I used a DBX program to open
| those dbx files and it says there are no emails there,but the actual
| DBX file is 32mb.Any help here? Thanks.
 
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Don MI

mrpaps said:
My friend has a problem with old emails. Something happened and all the
emails in a few different folders have disappeared. There were 10 folders
created in the Inbox folder. I used a DBX program to open those dbx files
and it says there are no emails there,but the actual DBX file is 32mb.Any
help here? Thanks.
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For *.dbx files, file size does not correspond to content. When a
email/message is deleted from a *.dbx file, the file space used is not
recovered until you compact the file. While I am not aware of any, a web
search may return a program that will undelete deleted email/messages in a
*.dbx file.

Don
 
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