Lost OE5.5 messages

[Horsepower]

Yesterday all of my messages in my OE inbox disappeared. It acted like I had just installed OE with that "welcome" message. I am running W2000. Any guidance appreciated.

 

[Slikkster]

Read this and see if there's help for ya there:

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This page was written for Windows98 installations. For yours, the following path applies:

C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Application Data\Identities

 

[Horsepower]

Thanx Slikk .. I have located the inbox.dbx from a backup, but am having trouble importing the messages to OE. I made sure it's not marked "read only" but I get a message saying "No messages can be found in this folder or another application is running that has the required files open. Please select another folder or try closing the applications that may have files open."

 

[Slikkster]

Just ran across this little program that might be of help to you:

DBXtract...extracts messages from OE DBX files

 

[Horsepower]

Slikk! I had posted at another newsgroup, and learned about DBXtract. I'm back in business! Thanx
P.S. The other dudes and dudettes were blaming McAfee

 

[mattyrug]

Damm, i coulda used that thing like 3 months ago!!
I lost almost 8 Years worth of messages because of the same problem!!

Somehow the Inbox.DBX file became corrupted, so OE5 re-named it Inbox[2].DBX, but i couldn't extract any messages, re-naming it wouldn't work. Even tried moving it between computers, and no luck. I just opened up the old Inbox.DBX file (I frantically searched all my back-ups!) and DBXtract worked like a charm!!

Thanx for the Link Man!!!