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Recovery for Outlook Express Contacts Recovery for Live Mail Email Backup & Restore For Outlook Express For Windows Vista Mail Other Email software Outlook Express Mail Viewer Password Recovery for OE DBX to HTML Converter Vista Mail to HTML Converter Outlook Express Attachment Processor Downloads Order Support Feedback Privacy Outlook Express compact files problem - missing mails after compact in Outlook Express. What you should do if you lost your Outlook Express inbox and all emails in it. The most often way it happens is like that. You close you Outlook Express and see a pop-up message "To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This may take up to a few minutes." Everyone http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-networking/cannot-compact-outlook-express-folders-folder-in/061dc2a5-5a00-49a5-bd82-7f2454eeb6e6 would like to free up the disk space, so you click "Yes" and Outlook Express starts compacting folders. If your computer hangs up and is not responding when compacting Outlook Express folders, power failure occurs or the user finishes Outlook Express process via the program manager; then email database (.dbx file) is damaged. And when you start Outlook Express next time you can see the lost Outlook Express inbox and all emails disappear. So, what has happened http://www.emailadept.com/outlook-express-compacting.htm and what does "compacting messages" mean? Outlook Express stores emails in special files with .DBX extension. Every OE folder has a corresponding .DBX file. For example, Inbox folder has a corresponding Inbox.dbx file, Outbox folder has a corresponding Outbox.dbx file and so on. Folders.dbx file stores a folder tree. When you delete a message from an Outlook Express folder or move it to another folder the message is not actually deleted from the folder, it is just marked as deleted and becomes invisible for the user. It is done to make Outlook Express work faster. The reverse side of such approach is that DBX files size grows quickly. To make the folders size smaller Outlook Express suggests that you should compact the folders. Or you can compact your folders by yourself. To do it, select the "File" -> "Folder" -> "Compact All Folders" menu item. Before compacting, select the "File" -> "Work Offline" item of the Outlook Express menu. In such a case, Outlook Express rebuilds dbx files so that they do not contain any deleted messages anymore. If a failure occurs when compacting OE folders then one or even all dbx files are totally corrupted. How to repair Outlook Express dbx files and recover Outlook Express emails. We have analyzed a great number of corrupt dbx files. As a rule, after "compacting failure" dbx file is filled wit
in Outlook Express. Messages in Outlook Express are compacted in order to speed up the work of Outlook Express and to decrease the space Outlook Express files take on the disk. It is also http://www.almersoft.com/products/outlook-express-backup/compacting-outlook-express.html important that the more compact your files are the less probable it is that they will be damaged in case of any failure. Compacting your files in OE is really easy. To compact all files (and therefore all folders) used by Outlook Express, you should select Compact all folders in the File - Folder menu. This picture will help you better visualize this process. Also, you can compact not all, but separate folders. outlook express For instance, you can compact only the Inbox folder. To do it, select the folder you want to compact and select the Compact menu item. This will compact only the folder that is current in Outlook Express. There are some more important issues that should be kept in mind. Do not store all your messages in one folder. For example, it will be better if you make several subfolders for the Inbox folder and outlook express compacting sort your messages in them. What for? In this case Outlook Express will store your messages in several files making it less likely that you will lose all your correspondence at once. Try to avoid keeping too many messages in one folder (it is recommended not to exceed the number of 2.000 messages). If there are too many messages, follow the first recommendation and divide the folder into several subfolders. Regularly (approximately once a month) compact your folders. If you extensively use e-mail, you can do it more often. The best way to ensure that your messages are safe and secure is to backup your data regularly. You can do it with the help of our program - Compact Outlook Express Backup. Download Compact Outlook Express Backup Now 1010 KB NEW Play flash tutorial "How to backup Outlook Express with Compact Outlook Express Backup" (150 KB) OS Supported: Windows 98 Windows ME Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 Windows Vista Outlook Express versions supported: Outlook Express 5.0 Outlook Express 5.01 Outlook Express 5.5 Outlook Express 6 With Compact Outlook Express Backup you can backup: Message Base; Address Book; Outlook Express settings; Accounts; Message Rules; Blocked Senders; Signatures; Read article about Outlook Express. Move Outlook Express OE Backup - how to Screenshots Copyright © 2000-2008 AlmerSoft [AD]