TSGL: Outlook Express auto stores needed email

[Craig]

*Hi Ed,

Have you tried removing the read-only attribute? The same thing happened 
to me way back before SP2 came out. DBXtract (http://tinyurl.com/yqvzq2) 
saved me then, but I never figured out why it happened in the first 
place. I see that the site hasn't been updated since April of '06, (I 
must have had the same problem long before that), so the paragraph about 
McAfee is /somewhat/ outdated.

A search on the OE Library yields that it's what msoe.dll is all about. 
They say it's a critical part of OE.

See if dbxtract helps out. It worked ok for me. Haven't tried the 
Macallen thing listed below; I no longer use OE, just had to respond 
'cause I remember.

hope this helps,

Craig


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Messages in Inbox or other mail folders disappear

First check the obvious. Click View | Current View and be sure it is set 
to "Show All Messages". Also verify that "Show replies to my messages" 
is not checked or you will see only replies to your messages.

If the Current View setting is correct, then the *.dbx file for the 
problem folder has been damaged or deleted. Older versions of McAfee 
VirusScan are known to delete OE's *.dbx files if the email or Internet 
download scan is enabled 
<http://www.mcafeehelp.com/displaydoc.asp?docid=60743>. You can download 
a patch on the McAfee web site 
<http://www.mcafeeretail.com/naicommon/download/patches.asp>, or simply 
disable both the email and Internet download scan modules in VirusScan. 
These are not necessary to protect your computer if you still have 
VirusScan running in the background and scanning executable files as 
they are opened. In fact, the only real reason to use email and download 
scanning is to make you feel more secure. If this is the cause of your 
problem, I am sorry to say your messages are irretrievably lost.

In the case of a damaged "Inbox.dbx" file, a new Inbox with the default 
"Welcome to OE" message will have been created automatically, and will 
now be using the file  "Inbox(1).dbx" or similar. Likewise a new *.dbx 
file will have been created for any of the "system" folders that are 
damaged, Drafts, Deleted Items, Outbox and Sent Items. If your default 
email account is Hotmail or IMAP, the associated files will be named 
like "Hotmail - Inbox.dbx" or "<IMAP account name> - Inbox.dbx", etc. 
However the original *.dbx file will still be there, although OE will be 
unable to display it.

If the damaged *.dbx file still exists, or its temporary version *.dbt, 
move it to a new empty folder in Windows Explorer. You can then try 
DBXtract <http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/resources/tools.htm#dbxtract> 
or Macallan Outlook Express Extraction 
<http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/resources/tools.htm#macallan> to extract 
what messages it can.


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EDLYNN wrote:
> I use XPPro/sp2.  OE6, impolitely, and without instruction from me, moves my basically UNREAD message into a storage file (subfolder) which I was able to finally locate. The rub: I can't open it to get my email, even though Outlook Express led me to the folder and was itself open at the time. A right click yielded an 'open with' where I selected OE. Nothing happened. I tried other possible 'open withs' but only got a scrambled tiny box format of an unconverted optical message.
>
> Now I am really stuck. I need those emails, and I learned that this main folder contained many other sub folders with email that I never knew existed, but just figured that some people just didn't love me anymore:)
>
> Kidding aside, I don;t know how long it has been going on.
>
> A few questions:
> 1. How did the "auto snatch" happen? 
> ( Is it called "mailnapping"?)
> 2. How can I stop it, like real pronto?
> 3. How can I retrieve my snatched mail in readable condition?
> 4. One of the right-click choices was to set up an OutlookExpress LIBRARY. I never heard of that one before.
> 5. Can I get these emails back to my active OE folders?
>
> BTW, PROPERTIES shows a read-only attribute.
>
> My Firewall is active; all anti-virus is up-to-date; I've passed the AdAware, Spybot, and Win Defender tests.
>
> HELP, someone?
>
> Thanks.  ED
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