COMPRESSED EMAIL   

hello,
last night when closing my outlook express, there was a pop up asking me to 
compress my email so as to have more room.  I said yes.  How can i get that 
restored the way i had it and if i can't restore it to the way I had it how 
do i get access to all my old emails.  I tried to do a system restore 
thinking that would do it, but it did not change the emails back.


-- 
Angela

date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:10:31 -0800   author:   Angela

Re: COMPRESSED EMAIL   

Windows version?  Version of Outlook Express in use (as shown in 
Help/About)?

For some info on what the problem may be, see these links:

Why Mail Disappears:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone

About File Corruption:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

Recovery tool, (if the messages are still there):

DBXpress is the best chance of recovery when run in disk mode:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
-- 
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.
Thanks.


"Angela"  wrote in message 
news:05FA26B6-4C06-4865-B465-DA404FA4401F@microsoft.com...
> hello,
> last night when closing my outlook express, there was a pop up asking me 
> to
> compress my email so as to have more room.  I said yes.  How can i get 
> that
> restored the way i had it and if i can't restore it to the way I had it 
> how
> do i get access to all my old emails.  I tried to do a system restore
> thinking that would do it, but it did not change the emails back.
>
>
> -- 
> Angela

date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:29:22 -0800   author:   Jim Pickering

Re: COMPRESSED EMAIL   

Why it happens:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

Recovering data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DBXtract
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXtend (additional functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtend/Default.aspx

DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

OEX (OE Enhancement Program)
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Avoid Such Corruption in Future:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages.  Move them to local 
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual 
compact of all OE folders while "working offline".  More at 
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/maintain.htm.

- WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is 
automatically compacting your message store.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such 
corruption.  Disable it.  It provides no additional protection.

-- 
OE6-specific newsgroup: 
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
OE General newsgroup: 
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Angela wrote:
> hello,
> last night when closing my outlook express, there was a pop up asking me
> to compress my email so as to have more room.  I said yes.  How can i get
> that restored the way i had it and if i can't restore it to the way I had
> it how do i get access to all my old emails.  I tried to do a system
> restore thinking that would do it, but it did not change the emails back.

date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:18:53 -0500   author:   PA Bear