I found it in control panel under help about windows it says 5.1

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message

Windows xp home edition version 5.1??? Never heard of it.

Go to Start | Run and type winver

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What I can't understand is why just my new 2006 stuff all the old is
intact... you would think the whole thing would have went...

you mentioned type in *.db or should it be *.dbx there are a number how do
I know which one.

"janice" wrote:

I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and now for
some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the 2005 ones if it
was the other way around I could live with it, but I had some stuff in the
2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I never deleted anything,
this is driving me crazy please give me a simplistic explanation how to fix
this please.....

Please include previous replies. We can't tell who you were replying to.

To find your dbx files:

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then StartRunCtrl+V will put the location
in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise, write the
location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

In Windows XP, 2K & 3K, 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 |
View.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"janice" wrote in message
...
What I can't understand is why just my new 2006 stuff all the old is
intact... you would think the whole thing would have went...

you mentioned type in *.db or should it be *.dbx there are a number how
do
I know which one.

"janice" wrote:

I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and now
for
some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the 2005 ones if
it
was the other way around I could live with it, but I had some stuff in
the
2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I never deleted
anything,
this is driving me crazy please give me a simplistic explanation how to
fix
this please.....

"janice" wrote in message

The 05 and 06 were in the same folder my inbox. yes oe did compact
before the loss. I notice it come up and I let it do it's thing. I
realize now I probably had way too much in there, if I knew this was
going to happen I would have been deleting some of it that I no
longer needed. Now I am in the predicament of loosing the most
current stuff. I hope this can be fixed... thanks for getting back to
me so soon.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Windows version? Were the 05 and 06 messages in separate folders, or
the same folder? Was OE compacting prior to the loss?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"janice" wrote in message
...
I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and
now for some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the
2005 ones if it
was the other way around I could live with it, but I had some stuff
in the 2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I never
deleted anything,
this is driving me crazy please give me a simplistic explanation
how to fix
this please.....

Don't store messages in the Inbox. It is the folder most apt to be
corrupted. As soon as you read them move them to user created folders.
Then compact the Inbox regularly.

Go to Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder and write down where OE
is storing its data.
Close OE.
Go there with Windows Explorer and move (not copy) Inbox.dbx to an empty
Windows
folder. With Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3 it will be a hidden file and you will
have to set Windows Explorer to Show hidden files and folders (Tools |
Folder Options | View). While there, uncheck the box to Hide extensions for
known file types.

You can use either of these tools to extract the messages from the old DBX
file:

DBXtract ($5): http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/ although this tool is faster
and better:
DBXpress: ($25) http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
Do NOT extract to the desktop!
With a large file this can take a long time, so let it keep running.

The messages can be dragged from a Windows folder back into an OE folder in
OE's Folder List.


--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

Repost:

Why it happens:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.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 Futu

- 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.

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



janice wrote:
What I can't understand is why just my new 2006 stuff all the old is
intact... you would think the whole thing would have went...

you mentioned type in *.db or should it be *.dbx there are a number how
do I know which one.

"janice" wrote:

I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and now
for some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the 2005
ones if it was the other way around I could live with it, but I had
some stuff in the 2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I
never deleted anything, this is driving me crazy please give me a
simplistic explanation how to fix this please.....

ok
"ALENA" a écrit dans le message de news:
...

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote in message
...
"janice" wrote in message

The 05 and 06 were in the same folder my inbox. yes oe did compact
before the loss. I notice it come up and I let it do it's thing. I
realize now I probably had way too much in there, if I knew this was
going to happen I would have been deleting some of it that I no
longer needed. Now I am in the predicament of loosing the most
current stuff. I hope this can be fixed... thanks for getting back to
me so soon.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Windows version? Were the 05 and 06 messages in separate folders, or
the same folder? Was OE compacting prior to the loss?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"janice" wrote in message
...
I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and
now for some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the
2005 ones if it
was the other way around I could live with it, but I had some stuff
in the 2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I never
deleted anything,
this is driving me crazy please give me a simplistic explanation
how to fix
this please.....

Don't store messages in the Inbox. It is the folder most apt to be
corrupted. As soon as you read them move them to user created folders.
Then compact the Inbox regularly.

Go to Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder and write down where
OE is storing its data.
Close OE.
Go there with Windows Explorer and move (not copy) Inbox.dbx to an empty
Windows
folder. With Win2K, WinXP and Win2K3 it will be a hidden file and you
will have to set Windows Explorer to Show hidden files and folders (Tools
| Folder Options | View). While there, uncheck the box to Hide
extensions for known file types.

You can use either of these tools to extract the messages from the old
DBX file:

DBXtract ($5): http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/ although this tool is
faster and better:
DBXpress: ($25) http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
Do NOT extract to the desktop!
With a large file this can take a long time, so let it keep running.

The messages can be dragged from a Windows folder back into an OE folder
in OE's Folder List.


--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

I tried dbxtract and I still don't get any 2006 e-mail, I looked for the
inbox.dbx backup file and did the xtract and it's just all the old 2005 that
I don't need. So unfortunately I come up with nothing : (


"PA Bear" wrote:

Repost:

Why it happens:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.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 Futu

- 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.

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



janice wrote:
What I can't understand is why just my new 2006 stuff all the old is
intact... you would think the whole thing would have went...

you mentioned type in *.db or should it be *.dbx there are a number how
do I know which one.

"janice" wrote:

I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and now
for some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the 2005
ones if it was the other way around I could live with it, but I had
some stuff in the 2006 that is very important, how do I get it back.. I
never deleted anything, this is driving me crazy please give me a
simplistic explanation how to fix this please.....

Have you searched all your hard drives and partitions for DBX files? You
may find some called Inbox(1).dbx, Inbox(2).dbx, etc. If your search was
only for Inbox.dbx you may have missed those files.

If you are using an antivirus product set to scan incoming email messages,
it's very possible that the information in the DBX file may have been
overwritten by the antivirus product with no information but "zeroes" which
means they cannot normally be recovered.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"janice" wrote in message
...
I tried dbxtract and I still don't get any 2006 e-mail, I looked for the
inbox.dbx backup file and did the xtract and it's just all the old 2005
that
I don't need. So unfortunately I come up with nothing : (


"PA Bear" wrote:

Repost:

Why it happens:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.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 Futu

- 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.

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



janice wrote:
What I can't understand is why just my new 2006 stuff all the old is
intact... you would think the whole thing would have went...

you mentioned type in *.db or should it be *.dbx there are a number
how
do I know which one.

"janice" wrote:

I am very new at this I had a lot of e-mail in outlook express and
now
for some reason just the 2006 emails disappeared and I have the 2005
ones if it was the other way around I could live with it, but I had
some stuff in the 2006 that is very important, how do I get it back..
I
never deleted anything, this is driving me crazy please give me a
simplistic explanation how to fix this please.....