Mail from Outlook Express

[flatford39]

Hi, all
Got home from work tonite and fired up my trusty rusty puter and received a message from Outlook express in my mail box that I had upgraded to version # 6. Thought it odd as that is the version I use.

When I checked the rest of my mail I noticed all the mail that was in my inbox had disappeared. All that was in my mail box was todays mail.

I had some addresses ets in my inbox that I would like to retreive but haven't been able to find the old mail.

I use IE as my browser with OE as my mail and XP home edition as my OS.

Thankyou in advance for any info that I may receive.

[Tuf]

Are you logging on with the same user name as you always do?

[flatford39]

Tuff,
Yes I am. The only thing I have changed on this puter recently and that was Sunday was I bought a new mouse. Basic Microsoft mouse with the little scroll wheel.

Thankyou

Tom

[MaxC]

WOW, this EXACT SAME thing happened to me!!! I swear, the exact fricken thing! I even asked my sisters if they had upgraded it.....


Yeah i was pretty mad when all my mail was gone.


Max

[glc]

Turn off automatic updates. That will prevent this from happening again, but it won't get your mail back.

Search your hard drive for inbox.dbx, I believe that's what the inbox is in OE. To get it back into OE, import messages from a store directory and browse to the folder where you found the dbx files.