My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up in
the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.

1: Is this the machine in question? (XP/SP2).

2: Was he in Windows Explorer at the time and try to move the Outlook
Express message store folder, or the individual dbx files within the message
store?

You can Right Click and Send To, or drag the folder or files and then select
Move, but I am not seeing a Move To option. Please elaborate so I can give
you the best advice.

Enable Hidden Files and Folders:

In WinXP, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable
Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options
Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | View.

Now do a search for

*.dbx

What do you find?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"BKent1" wrote in message
...
My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up in
the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.

My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up in
the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.



"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
1: Is this the machine in question? (XP/SP2).

2: Was he in Windows Explorer at the time and try to move the Outlook
Express message store folder, or the individual dbx files within the
message store?

You can Right Click and Send To, or drag the folder or files and then
select Move, but I am not seeing a Move To option. Please elaborate so I
can give you the best advice.

Enable Hidden Files and Folders:

In WinXP, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable
Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options
Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | View.

Now do a search for

*.dbx

What do you find?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"BKent1" wrote in message
...
My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up
in the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.

So you're just going to ask the same question over and over and ignore my
post? OK. Someone else can handle it for you.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"BKent1" wrote in message
...
My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up in
the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.



"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
1: Is this the machine in question? (XP/SP2).

2: Was he in Windows Explorer at the time and try to move the Outlook
Express message store folder, or the individual dbx files within the
message store?

You can Right Click and Send To, or drag the folder or files and then
select Move, but I am not seeing a Move To option. Please elaborate so I
can give you the best advice.

Enable Hidden Files and Folders:

In WinXP, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must
enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder
Options Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options |
View.

Now do a search for

*.dbx

What do you find?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"BKent1" wrote in message
...
My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up
in the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.

Ohh, sorry, first time I have used newsgroup.
windows xp/sp2 OS

My son tried moving the whole OE local folders file
using IE to a new storage folder created on C drive.

Alot (100+) of files come up searching .dbx

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
So you're just going to ask the same question over and over and ignore my
post? OK. Someone else can handle it for you.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"BKent1" wrote in message
...
My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up
in
the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.



"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
1: Is this the machine in question? (XP/SP2).

2: Was he in Windows Explorer at the time and try to move the Outlook
Express message store folder, or the individual dbx files within the
message store?

You can Right Click and Send To, or drag the folder or files and then
select Move, but I am not seeing a Move To option. Please elaborate so I
can give you the best advice.

Enable Hidden Files and Folders:

In WinXP, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must
enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel |
Folder Options Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder
Options | View.

Now do a search for

*.dbx

What do you find?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"BKent1" wrote in message
...
My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up
in the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.

Write down the path to these dbx files you found doing the search.

Follow that path in Windows Explorer. Do you see them?

Are they all together in one folder?

Look for Folders.dbx. Is that among them? If yes, Open OE and import them.

File | Import | Messages. Select Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and check:
Import from an OE store Directory. Point to the location of the folder you
found and import.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA



"BKent1" wrote in message
...
Ohh, sorry, first time I have used newsgroup.
windows xp/sp2 OS

My son tried moving the whole OE local folders file
using IE to a new storage folder created on C drive.

Alot (100+) of files come up searching .dbx

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
So you're just going to ask the same question over and over and ignore my
post? OK. Someone else can handle it for you.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"BKent1" wrote in message
...
My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up
in
the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.



"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
1: Is this the machine in question? (XP/SP2).

2: Was he in Windows Explorer at the time and try to move the Outlook
Express message store folder, or the individual dbx files within the
message store?

You can Right Click and Send To, or drag the folder or files and then
select Move, but I am not seeing a Move To option. Please elaborate so
I can give you the best advice.

Enable Hidden Files and Folders:

In WinXP, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by
default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you
must enable Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel |
Folder Options Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder
Options | View.

Now do a search for

*.dbx

What do you find?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"BKent1" wrote in message
...
My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing
up in the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.

Tip #1: Assuming your 8 years worth of mail is worth $27 to you, purchase
DBXpress (http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx) | Close OE
(IMPORTANT!) | Run DBXpress in "Extract from disk" mode | Recovered messages
(if any) can be dragged into any folder in your new (and empty) identity.

Tip #2: Take your machine to a local, reputable, and independent shop (i.e.,
not BigBoxStore USA or Geek Squad) and ask them to recover your database.

Tip #3: Password-protect your User Account and don't let your son know the
password.

Good luck.

General OE Caveats:

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

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working
offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

- Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to
close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting
is taking place.

- Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause
corruption (i.e., loss of messages) and provides no additional protection:

Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


BKent1 wrote:
My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up in
the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.

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My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up in
the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.