Help me replace Outlook Express.. please! - Page 2

**Maggy** · 05-07-2004, 21:03

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Originally Posted by Plonking

ahah? what is this archiving thing of which you speak? i've never seen it happen before, but then i've never had OE on XP before. how would i get them back? emails came into them everyday, though, but i'm not sure if it matters... ?

Every now and then OE asks if I want to archive my emails as I've apparently too many for OE's comfort.I always say no and then I delete the ones I don't want.However it is easy to inadvertantly click yes by mistake as I've done this in the past.I don't know where the archived mail goes so don't ask me.

Anyway ever since I've stopped collecting emails I'm not asked to archive them by OE.

Buzzby · 05-07-2004, 21:06

I have got firefox, browserand thunderbird the e-mail client. Not yet installed, but I will get round to it.
This is basically why i am going down this road.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06...itch_explorer/

XP has program access, set defaults etc if you load other browsers/e-mail clients m$ were forced to provide this.
You will have to keep the ms software where it's use is forced on you, ie m$ update or accessing some m$ only websites which only accept ie 5.5+ etc.

Plonking · 05-07-2004, 21:14

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Originally Posted by Paul

One good place to start looking for information on OE is
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone might help if the folder is still there somewhere )

cheers for the links

i'll see what i can do - *grr* all the same and *grr* indeed! haha ah well

i see one of the programs there costs that thing called money with a paypal accnt - d'oh i don't have paypal!

**returns a few minutes later after much googling

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=295965

I did what it says here and got the main folder back, although have lost the sub-folder .. will try and find it from a back up

thanks y'all..! where would i be without you!?!?!?

Paul K · 05-07-2004, 21:17

If you find your dbx files you can move them back into the right place I think. Been a while since I last broke my accounts

Plonking · 05-07-2004, 21:18

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

Every now and then OE asks if I want to archive my emails as I've apparently too many for OE's comfort.I always say no and then I delete the ones I don't want.However it is easy to inadvertantly click yes by mistake as I've done this in the past.I don't know where the archived mail goes so don't ask me.

Anyway ever since I've stopped collecting emails I'm not asked to archive them by OE.

lol, i may have done - although i do leave it turned on for hours on end, so maybe it did something to be *helpful* in the way that windows related stuff likes to do ?!?

dunno, at least i got some stuff back, so it's not a total washout!

Plonking · 05-07-2004, 21:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buzzby

I have got firefox, browserand thunderbird the e-mail client. Not yet installed, but I will get round to it.
This is basically why i am going down this road.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06...itch_explorer/

XP has program access, set defaults etc if you load other browsers/e-mail clients m$ were forced to provide this.
You will have to keep the ms software where it's use is forced on you, ie m$ update or accessing some m$ only websites which only accept ie 5.5+ etc.

this is scary stuff indeed! hence one of my reasons for moving to linux (When i get round to it) - i am an avid fan of firefox, although it doesn't work on all the pcs we have here, it seems to be quite resource-hungry. it hangs one pc we have with 128mb ram and the other with 324mb goes dead slow. the extensions and skin support is also dead cool

Plonking · 05-07-2004, 21:22

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Originally Posted by Paul

If you find your dbx files you can move them back into the right place I think. Been a while since I last broke my accounts

lol i think i have managed it, although one folder really has gone walkabout

maybe the intelligent emails i get have somehow merged to form a higher form of intelligence - which then decided it was too clever for my pc so has moved off to some remote corner of the internet to settle down and have kids.

you never know :P

Paul K · 05-07-2004, 21:24

Hmmm think those are saved as .eml files but not too sure

will ask google in a minute

greencreeper · 05-07-2004, 21:25

My email client is discussed here:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...5&page=3&pp=15

Plonking · 05-07-2004, 21:29

lol, i searched for *.eml and my findings consisted of the first two emails i ever recieved .. way back in '98 ! wow! i kept them for sentimental value and crossed them over when i got a new pc

still no luck with the mysterious other folder though. just don't know where it has gone ?

Paul K · 05-07-2004, 21:32

1998? Hope you dusted them

Will go google for more help

Paul K · 05-07-2004, 21:38

You need to find the .dbx file to get hold of your other emails, are you searching hidden files etc? Your storage folder for Outlook Express is listed in your outlook express, under Tools, options, maintenance, store folder.
This gives more info on where else to look
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/search.htm

Plonking · 05-07-2004, 21:46

this is really really odd - i found the log file for Oe's compacting of my folders, and my folders were there earlier today. yet now the emails and the folder itself, has completely vanished. one of the folders that vanished - the .dbx file was still on the pc. the other folder has just walked off the edge of the planet - i've searched hidden and system folders, everything i can think of -

i think i'll have to give up the ghost on this one, and use the backup i made tomorrow

still, it's very confusing, for a number of reasons:

1. why this happened in the first place
2. why it completely removed one folder but left the other to be put back again

ah well , these things happen