My DBXtract and DBXpress programs will partially recover deleted messages,
but they cannot be completely recovered, as OE overwites 4 bytes for every
512 byte segment of the file, so those bytes are missing in the recovered
messages.

The program you reference below will not extract deleted messages. There is
a special signature to such that that program is unaware of.

steve

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"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

The messages remain in Deleted Items.dbx until either you compact, or
they
are overwritten, which would take awhile.

Macallan Outlook Express Extraction:
http://www.insideoe.com/resources/tools.htm#macallan


Tried your first suggestion. Opened the file Deleted Items.dbx (20MB). The
software converts something and ends, but nothing is shown. I guess it
created a folder "Deleted Items" containing an empty text file which I
think
wasn't there previously . Unfortunately there are absolutely no
instructions
with the tool. Do you know how to use it in order to provide some hints on
how to proceed? Thank you.

MET