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johnske
02-01-2007, 07:00 AM
OK, IE froze, then everything froze and had to turn off PC. Now all the emails I wanted to keep from the last 2 years have disappeared from my inbox and I have a new email saying - "Welcome to Outlook Express".

This is strange - it's only the Inbox that was affected as I still have all the Sent Items and everything that was in all the other folders.

Anyone know how/if I can recover these emails?

Bob Phillips
02-01-2007, 02:45 PM
John,

Outlook Express uses *.dbx files. See if you can find a big one of these on the system. If you do,, you can import it http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

johnske
02-01-2007, 06:11 PM
Thanx Bob, that did it. It happened just after I'd set a picture of a supermassive black hole as my screen background and was almost as if they'd got too near the event horizon and been sucked into the black hole :rofl: