Missing 1 years email outlook express:(

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A friend has lost a years worth of emails from her inbox in outlook express

Emails are there from before feb last year and are there from 7th jan this year but nothing in between. 100s missing:(

Have tried OE-mail recovery and got nothing extra back.

Have also done a data recovery for dbx files and got a few but none contained the emails.

Anymore suggestions?

cheers:)
 
Yeah possibly could be.

A system restore was done in december but she said all was fine after it...but could have been that she just didnt notice them missing till january

Would a system restore delete that period of emails?
There was also a years worth of invoices missing too. (work pc)

If it was caused by doing a system restore would unrestoring it possibly bring them back?

If only people would backup data they need :(
 
have you had a look in the C:\documents and settings\your profile\application data\identities\{long number}\microsoft\outlook

I think thats the full location for the .dbx files.

Depending on how your friend has their emails set out there may be some in a seperate .dbx file which isn't being read?
 
If she sorts mail in to folders this might be worth a try if using Windows XP.

Look at the directory on the local computer where the messages are stored. Can find location from within Outlook Express from Tools menu, Options, Advance tab, Maintenance button, Store folder button.

With Windows XP I once had dbx file renamed with a 1 at end, and the directory structure in Outlook Express was not tied to the correctly named file name, e.g. XP file was named gubbins1 and in OE folder was looking for contents of file gubbins.

With Google mail it moves all downloaded mail to a subfolder. And I imagine all others providers do too. Gmail moves messages to All Mail folder once you have downloaded message with Outlook Express, etc.
 
Cheers for the reply but already had a look in the folder and only the specified .dbx files in there:(

Got excited when i found a inbox.bak in the recylce bit but turns out it was just a copy of the in use one:(

All i can think of is something must have gone wrong during the system restore as it seems to much of a coincidence for the invoices to have gone missing too from quicken 2001. Shes got them on paper tho so not important.
 
postmanfw said:
Cheers for the reply but already had a look in the folder and only the specified .dbx files in there:(

Got excited when i found a inbox.bak in the recylce bit but turns out it was just a copy of the in use one:(

All i can think of is something must have gone wrong during the system restore as it seems to much of a coincidence for the invoices to have gone missing too from quicken 2001. Shes got them on paper tho so not important.
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system restore does not touch those files as far as I am aware...
 
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