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E:mail woes

Post by :FI:Nellip » Thu May 07, 2009 5:26 pm

:evil: Bl**dy MS Outlook :cry: :( :evil:

OE seems to have lost most of my email - cannot even recover from back up folders etc or my SATA drive.

Yes, I know its my own fault for using MS c**p - any ideas for:

a. new mail client
b. bright ideas to recover lost mail files?

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: E:mail woes

Post by :FI:Mikester » Thu May 07, 2009 7:36 pm

Hi Neil

When you say most of your email, is it just your inbox or is it random bits and bobs? Did you maybe delete something by mistake?

I seem to remember a few years back, a school i worked in had this kinda issue but the inbox went walkabouts. Turns out when the inbox would reach a certain size it would create a new inbox.bdx file, Not saying this is what's happened but it's a possibility. Just check in the outlook folder(c:\prog files\outlook etc.) and see if you have 2 inbox.dbx files maybe one with a inbox.db~ or something. Anyhoo you would see a considerable size difference between them. (do a search)

If you have deleted these items you can maybe get some kind of recovery tool. Only issue here is the more mail or files you add onto the system the more likely they are to get overwritten, so be careful!

Outlook includes a feature called "auto archive" which will automatically move mail items older than a certain amount to an archive folder. Select the Tools menu, Options, Other, AutoArchive and check the settings displayed.

I would get a web based mail provider, hotmail or google mail small examples. At least this way the mail is stored on a server instead of your £40.00 hard drive!

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Re: E:mail woes

Post by :FI:Nellip » Thu May 07, 2009 8:12 pm

:FI:Mikester wrote:Hi Neil

When you say most of your email, is it just your inbox or is it random bits and bobs? Did you maybe delete something by mistake?


Outlook includes a feature called "auto archive" which will automatically move mail items older than a certain amount to an archive folder. Select the Tools menu, Options, Other, AutoArchive and check the settings displayed.
Thanks Mike - Inbox is gone and the only backup in the OE folder is December 2008 so lost the last 5 months. Also missing are contents of some other mail folders I created to keep things seperate. OE was performing some sort of compression routine at the time and part way through the PC crashed - when I rebooted the mail was gone.

I run SATA mirror on two drives but that seems to have fallen over at some point last December - hence that is as far back as I can recover.

I don't have an "Other" tab on options (only using Outlook Express not Outlook) - so not sure if auto archive is relevant?
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Re: E:mail woes

Post by :FI:Mikester » Thu May 07, 2009 11:04 pm

Neil did you have a look for the inbox.dbx file? can you see if there is more than one but maybe with a slightly diff name?
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Post by :FI:Nellip » Fri May 08, 2009 9:55 am

Yes I did Mike - a couple of dbx called "copy Inbox 1" and "copy Inbox" but both are very small in size - no emails inside them.

I think I am screwed :(

For the future I think I'll switch to a new mail client - and get my SATA set up again!
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Re: E:mail woes

Post by :FI:Mikester » Fri May 08, 2009 11:46 am

yeah sry neil, it doesn't look too good m8.
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Re: E:mail woes

Post by :FI:Mefisto » Fri May 08, 2009 11:03 pm

Hi,

Sometimes I used some other program that imports emails from oe.

This might be thunderbird or something.

Even if the database is corrupter it might get at least something of it...

What is the size of the inbox database file anyway?

And who introduced databes into email programs so users would lost the data with just one click?! ](*,)
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Post by :FI:Airway » Sat May 09, 2009 8:54 am

In Thunderbird you can export and import mails, add-ons and setting with Mozbackup
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Re: E:mail woes

Post by :FI:Heloego » Fri May 22, 2009 2:00 am

F**k Outlook!!!!!

Use Thunderbird or its Eudora variant. NEVER had a problem!!!!
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Re: E:mail woes

Post by :FI:Nellip » Sun May 24, 2009 5:43 pm

You said it Dan

Installed Thunderbird a couple of weeks ago and all seems fine.

Think my PC problems were down to the sound card of all things - got a great deal of crashes and it was due to one of these that I lost my mail database, so not really Outlooks fault I guess. Since reinstalling the sound software everythings been fine - so fingers crossed
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Re: E:mail woes

Post by :FI:Heloego » Tue May 26, 2009 5:58 am

If you continue having issues when you're operating at max, it could be your SC has been over-temping, too. We'll keep our fingies crossed for ya. :)



P.S. Lose Outlook anyway. :-8
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