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Harvey,
Outlook Express opens .dbx folders. Actually, in that context, folder is a
misnomer.
The actual .dbx folder is really a file with a .dbx extension. The separate
messages are all contained within that file.
I assume that you meant she compacted her folders instead of collapsed. OE is
very fussy about its folders, and the .dbx data they contain.
If those folders are now unreadable, she could try downloading a copy of
dbXtract from
www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.asp
but I can't promise the data will be restored.
Another thought: if somehow the compacting process got hung up, she might find
some of those files with a multiple .dbx.bak exstension. She could try
restoring those old files, the process being basically:
1. Go to the folder where the present .dbx files live.
2. Copy the .dbx.bak files to that same folder
3. Delete the new folders that have the same prefix name as the ones she
copied over: e.g. inbox.dbx and since there is an inbox.dbx.bak file.
4. Rename each of the .bak files by pressing f2, and deleting the .bak
extension so that the old saved copy of inbox.dbx.bak would become inbox.dbx.
HTH,
Steve, K8SP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 8:01 AM
Subject: OT opening DBX files
I am seeking help for a friend of mine. She was getting the message in
Outlook Express that this message could not be read and to please check her
disc space or memory for low memory or something to that effect. So she
collapsed her Outlook Express folders when exiting the program in an effort
to solve this problem. But when she went back in, she found that many of
her folders were empty. She saw those folders with DBX extensions, but
neither of us could figure out how to open them. Does anyone know how to
open them without interfering with anything that might have come since, and
what is the most speech friendly program to do it if she has to download
something to open them. Thanks much. 73.
Harvey(N.5.H.A.U.)
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