[simpits-tech] Ok, I'm screwed

[Matt Bailey]

Ack, sorry to hear that. Hmmm, I suppose this would be too much to hope for, 
but does OE store e-mail as plain old text? Try opening the DBX file in a 
text editor.

Hope this doesn't sound too harsh, but you really SHOULD lose OE. It's 
universally recognized as one of the sorriest e-mail clients known to man. My 
client (KMail) saves as plain text, also I've noticed when it's died 
ungracefully the worst result is typically the last messages I got are marked 
as unread that should be marked as read. Now I wouldn't recommend this 
particular client as it has an annoying bug that every now and then wipes out 
old e-mails whenever you highlight them (!) at least the version I have, but 
AFAIK KMail is Linux only anyway, just an example for you...........on 
Windows I used Netscape mail (4.7x), worked great. I've also heard of one 
called The Bat that's supposed to be good. Just some ideas.

	-Matt Bailey

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 04:01 pm, you wrote:
> I hate Microsoft. While reading my mail I got a BSOD and had to reboot.
> When I got everything running again I had lost the contents of my Inbox in
> Outlook Express. The DBX file is still quite a few megs so I knew it was
> all still there, so I hunted down a thing called Outlook Express Recovery
> and downloaded the demo. Worked great, except that the demo would only fix
> about a dozen messages. I have some very important info in there so I was
> ready to buy the thing to fix the problem. What do they want for it?
> $150?!?! So now I'm back to being screwed.
>
> Does anyone know of any other utilities that will fix a corrupt OE DBX
> file? I gotta get that data back. From now on I'm going to be backing up
> all of my DBX files every day, if not every few hours.