[Sharon]

Hi all

Can someone please recommend a document / link regarding the DBX file
structure?

Thank you



Sharon

[Bruce Hagen]

See:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP - (IE/OE)
~IB-CA~

"Sharon" <Sharon669@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> Can someone please recommend a document / link regarding the DBX file
> structure?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> Sharon
>
>

[Jim Pickering]

It is a proprietary file format, written by a developer at Microsoft, who we
now assume, is safely confined to a rubber room without computer access.
<vbg> For some limited info on the structure, you can review the info at
this link:

DBX info by Arne Schloh:
http://oedbx.aroh.de/
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.



"Sharon" <Sharon669@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> Can someone please recommend a document / link regarding the DBX file
> structure?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> Sharon
>
>

[Sharon]

Thank you Jim for the excellent link

At first peek the DBX seems like very hard nut,



But my lost e-mails worth a try...



Sharon


"Jim Pickering" <jim.pickering@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> It is a proprietary file format, written by a developer at Microsoft, who
> we now assume, is safely confined to a rubber room without computer
> access. <vbg> For some limited info on the structure, you can review the
> info at this link:
>
> DBX info by Arne Schloh:
> http://oedbx.aroh.de/
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> "Sharon" <Sharon669@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23I9xDlRcFHA.3400@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Hi all
>>
>> Can someone please recommend a document / link regarding the DBX file
>> structure?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>>
>> Sharon
>>
>>
>

[Sharon]

Hi Bruce

The solution suggested in this article is:

Purchase a copy of DBXtract for emergency use.



Well seems that DBXtract wont recognize my lost e-mails.

Sharon



"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
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> See:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP - (IE/OE)
> ~IB-CA~
>
> "Sharon" <Sharon669@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23I9xDlRcFHA.3400@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Hi all
>>
>> Can someone please recommend a document / link regarding the DBX file
>> structure?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>>
>> Sharon
>>
>>
>

[PA Bear]

Lost emails?...

Why it happens:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

Recovering your data:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
~~~~~~~~~~
Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

Disable Background Compacting [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual
compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm.

Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~PA Bear

Sharon wrote:
> Thank you Jim for the excellent link
>
> At first peek the DBX seems like very hard nut,
>
>
>
> But my lost e-mails worth a try...
>
>
>
> Sharon
>
>
> "Jim Pickering" <jim.pickering@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:u8qSnXScFHA.2840@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> It is a proprietary file format, written by a developer at Microsoft, who
>> we now assume, is safely confined to a rubber room without computer
>> access. <vbg> For some limited info on the structure, you can review the
>> info at this link:
>>
>> DBX info by Arne Schloh:
>> http://oedbx.aroh.de/
>> --
>> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
>> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
>> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Sharon" <Sharon669@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23I9xDlRcFHA.3400@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Can someone please recommend a document / link regarding the DBX file
>>> structure?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sharon

[PA Bear]

DBXpress *might* be able to do it.
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
--
~PA Bear

Sharon wrote:
> The solution suggested in this article is:
> Purchase a copy of DBXtract for emergency use.
> Well seems that DBXtract wont recognize my lost e-mails.
>
> "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:uCUoNoRcFHA.1556@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> See:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
>> --
>> Bruce Hagen
>> MS-MVP - (IE/OE)
>> ~IB-CA~
>>
>> "Sharon" <Sharon669@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23I9xDlRcFHA.3400@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Can someone please recommend a document / link regarding the DBX file
>>> structure?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sharon

[Steve Cochran]

You can try opening the dbx files with Notepad. I suspect you will find
they are empty (full of zeroes), if DBXtract was unable to get them.

As PA Bear indicates, DBXpress with its extract from disk function may be
able to pull the messages off the disk clusters, but that depends on whether
or not the disk clusters have been overwritten, and there is no guarantee
that DBXpress will work. So its a bit of a crapshoot on whether or not you
could recover them.

For the future do points 2 and 3 here: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx to help
prevent a recurrence of the message loss. Also backup frequently, as the OE
message store is subject to self destruction, as you unfortunately have
found out.

steve

"Sharon" <Sharon669@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uY$i4uccFHA.3400@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi Bruce
>
> The solution suggested in this article is:
>
> Purchase a copy of DBXtract for emergency use.
>
>
>
> Well seems that DBXtract wont recognize my lost e-mails.
>
> Sharon
>
>
>
> "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:uCUoNoRcFHA.1556@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> See:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
>> --
>> Bruce Hagen
>> MS-MVP - (IE/OE)
>> ~IB-CA~
>>
>> "Sharon" <Sharon669@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23I9xDlRcFHA.3400@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Can someone please recommend a document / link regarding the DBX file
>>> structure?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sharon
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>