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From: Funky_Monk on 3 Feb 2005 05:34

My colleague had accidently pressed "Yes" whrn outlook express wanted to
compact e-mails. The compacting operation had started, but she urgently
needed to view an e-mail. So, she tried to cancel the operation, which
lead to nothing. So she pressed "Reset" button, and now there are
absolutely no e-mail messages in inbox folder. Inbox.dbx file is empty
as well. Is there somekind of a way to restore these e-mails? Will
System Restore help? Where are the files during compacting process?

I would appreciate soonest reply, as there were some very urgent
e-mails in inbox that day, and I do not know whom should I reply now.

Best wishes,
Stas Chekalin


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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE on 3 Mar 2005 06:41
"Funky_Monk" <Funky_Monk.1lathq(a)news.officefrustration.com> wrote in message
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> My colleague had accidently pressed "Yes" whrn outlook express wanted to
> compact e-mails. The compacting operation had started, but she urgently
> needed to view an e-mail. So, she tried to cancel the operation, which
> lead to nothing. So she pressed "Reset" button, and now there are
> absolutely no e-mail messages in inbox folder. Inbox.dbx file is empty
> as well. Is there somekind of a way to restore these e-mails? Will
> System Restore help? Where are the files during compacting process?
>
> I would appreciate soonest reply, as there were some very urgent
> e-mails in inbox that day, and I do not know whom should I reply now.
>
> Best wishes,
> Stas Chekalin

Look in her store folder for an Inbox.dbt
If it exists use DBXtract (http://www.oehelp.com) to retrieve the messages
from that. If it doesn't exist then she successfully deleted all of the
messages, but if she is using Win2K or WinXP then DBXpress _may_ recover
some of the messages. It's at the same site, but read the instructions
carefully. The more the machine is used before running DBXpress, the more
messages will be totally lost.

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