My system gave me a quick blue screen today while I was working in OE. Upon
restart and opening of OE, all messages within one identity(the one I was
working in when the BS happened) were gone, they folder tree had been reset,
EXCEPT for deleted messages, which were still there.
Additional folders that I had added, "Permanent save", "spam" were gone with
all accompanying messages.

Any thoughts at to what happened?
All other identities remain intact.

Any way to recover what was lost?

Thanks for any help

Could be the folders.dbx file became corrupted. See:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#foldersdbx

Also, check the Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder for where the
DBX files are stored. Assuming your missing folders are there, once the
folders.dbx file is recreated, you can import the found DBX files via
the procedures listed he
How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Rake Killer" wrote in message
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My system gave me a quick blue screen today while I was working in OE.
Upon restart and opening of OE, all messages within one identity(the
one I was working in when the BS happened) were gone, they folder tree
had been reset, EXCEPT for deleted messages, which were still there.
Additional folders that I had added, "Permanent save", "spam" were
gone with all accompanying messages.

Any thoughts at to what happened?
All other identities remain intact.

Any way to recover what was lost?

Thanks for any help

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
Could be the folders.dbx file became corrupted. See:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#foldersdbx

Also, check the Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder for where the
DBX files are stored. Assuming your missing folders are there, once the
folders.dbx file is recreated, you can import the found DBX files via the
procedures listed he
How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx


--
I found the .dbx files and several were several doubles of files that were
named with (1) added..I.E
Inbox (1).dbx
Drafts(1).dbx
Sent Item(1).dbx

None of the other identities had these, it appears the "working" file is
named without the (1) and wonder if these that are (1) are the old .dbx
files..should i just rename them and see what appears?
nothng really to lose at this point.
I DL'd the extraction tool that you pointed me to...it did nothing but
create empty extraction logs and storage folders of each dbx file.
Could these files just be so far gone i should just let forget about it?
Thanks none the less, i have learned some interesting things about OE.


Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Rake Killer" wrote in message
news:hIV%f.534$QP4.507@fed1read12...
My system gave me a quick blue screen today while I was working in OE.
Upon restart and opening of OE, all messages within one identity(the one
I was working in when the BS happened) were gone, they folder tree had
been reset, EXCEPT for deleted messages, which were still there.
Additional folders that I had added, "Permanent save", "spam" were gone
with all accompanying messages.

Any thoughts at to what happened?
All other identities remain intact.

Any way to recover what was lost?

Thanks for any help

When OE has a problem with a DBX file, it renames it adding the
(number). Those files may be corrupted. But probably have some
recoverable messages. Try the extraction program on them. If it works
and finds messages, they will be EML files (one per message). You can
drag them back into an open OE mail folder.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Rake Killer" wrote in message
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"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
Could be the folders.dbx file became corrupted. See:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#foldersdbx

Also, check the Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder for where
the DBX files are stored. Assuming your missing folders are there,
once the folders.dbx file is recreated, you can import the found DBX
files via the procedures listed he
How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx


--
I found the .dbx files and several were several doubles of files that
were named with (1) added..I.E
Inbox (1).dbx
Drafts(1).dbx
Sent Item(1).dbx

None of the other identities had these, it appears the "working" file
is named without the (1) and wonder if these that are (1) are the old
.dbx files..should i just rename them and see what appears?
nothng really to lose at this point.
I DL'd the extraction tool that you pointed me to...it did nothing but
create empty extraction logs and storage folders of each dbx file.
Could these files just be so far gone i should just let forget about
it?
Thanks none the less, i have learned some interesting things about OE.


Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Rake Killer" wrote in message
news:hIV%f.534$QP4.507@fed1read12...
My system gave me a quick blue screen today while I was working in
OE. Upon restart and opening of OE, all messages within one
identity(the one I was working in when the BS happened) were gone,
they folder tree had been reset, EXCEPT for deleted messages, which
were still there.
Additional folders that I had added, "Permanent save", "spam" were
gone with all accompanying messages.

Any thoughts at to what happened?
All other identities remain intact.

Any way to recover what was lost?

Thanks for any help

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
When OE has a problem with a DBX file, it renames it adding the (number).
Those files may be corrupted. But probably have some recoverable
messages. Try the extraction program on them. If it works and finds
messages, they will be EML files (one per message). You can drag them
back into an open OE mail folder.
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


Appreciate the responses, alas i thingk the .dbx files are lost, cant seem
to recover anything using the extraction program.
Not a huge loss, but irritating.
Thanks again for the knowledge.


"Rake Killer" wrote in message
news:lg40g.568$QP4.491@fed1read12...

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
Could be the folders.dbx file became corrupted. See:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#foldersdbx

Also, check the Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder for where the
DBX files are stored. Assuming your missing folders are there, once the
folders.dbx file is recreated, you can import the found DBX files via
the procedures listed he
How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx


--
I found the .dbx files and several were several doubles of files that
were named with (1) added..I.E
Inbox (1).dbx
Drafts(1).dbx
Sent Item(1).dbx

None of the other identities had these, it appears the "working" file is
named without the (1) and wonder if these that are (1) are the old .dbx
files..should i just rename them and see what appears?
nothng really to lose at this point.
I DL'd the extraction tool that you pointed me to...it did nothing but
create empty extraction logs and storage folders of each dbx file.
Could these files just be so far gone i should just let forget about it?
Thanks none the less, i have learned some interesting things about OE.


Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Rake Killer" wrote in message
news:hIV%f.534$QP4.507@fed1read12...
My system gave me a quick blue screen today while I was working in OE.
Upon restart and opening of OE, all messages within one identity(the
one I was working in when the BS happened) were gone, they folder tree
had been reset, EXCEPT for deleted messages, which were still there.
Additional folders that I had added, "Permanent save", "spam" were gone
with all accompanying messages.

Any thoughts at to what happened?
All other identities remain intact.

Any way to recover what was lost?

Thanks for any help

What extraction program did you use? Some are better than others at
dealing with corrupted files.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"GotBonus" wrote in message
news:wWx0g.643$QP4.39@fed1read12...

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
When OE has a problem with a DBX file, it renames it adding the
(number). Those files may be corrupted. But probably have some
recoverable messages. Try the extraction program on them. If it
works and finds messages, they will be EML files (one per message).
You can drag them back into an open OE mail folder.
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


Appreciate the responses, alas i thingk the .dbx files are lost, cant
seem to recover anything using the extraction program.
Not a huge loss, but irritating.
Thanks again for the knowledge.


"Rake Killer" wrote in message
news:lg40g.568$QP4.491@fed1read12...

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
Could be the folders.dbx file became corrupted. See:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/errors.htm#foldersdbx

Also, check the Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder for where
the DBX files are stored. Assuming your missing folders are there,
once the folders.dbx file is recreated, you can import the found
DBX files via the procedures listed he
How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx


--
I found the .dbx files and several were several doubles of files
that were named with (1) added..I.E
Inbox (1).dbx
Drafts(1).dbx
Sent Item(1).dbx

None of the other identities had these, it appears the "working"
file is named without the (1) and wonder if these that are (1) are
the old .dbx files..should i just rename them and see what appears?
nothng really to lose at this point.
I DL'd the extraction tool that you pointed me to...it did nothing
but create empty extraction logs and storage folders of each dbx
file.
Could these files just be so far gone i should just let forget about
it?
Thanks none the less, i have learned some interesting things about
OE.


Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Rake Killer" wrote in message
news:hIV%f.534$QP4.507@fed1read12...
My system gave me a quick blue screen today while I was working in
OE. Upon restart and opening of OE, all messages within one
identity(the one I was working in when the BS happened) were gone,
they folder tree had been reset, EXCEPT for deleted messages,
which were still there.
Additional folders that I had added, "Permanent save", "spam" were
gone with all accompanying messages.

Any thoughts at to what happened?
All other identities remain intact.

Any way to recover what was lost?

Thanks for any help