| All
of your Outlook Express 5/6 mail folders and emails, and all of
your subscribed newsgroups and messages are stored in one directory,
called the store root directory, which can be determined by selecting
"Tools| Options| Maintenance| Store folder" in OE.
Under store
root directory, you can find several .dbx file. The 'Folders.dbx'
file is the master index of the entire store, which stores the
tree structure of the mail folders and additional information.
The 'Offline.dbx' file stores IMAP and Hotmail actions, if you
have an IMAP or Hotmail account. The 'Pop3uidl.dbx' file keeps
track of messages left on a POP3 mail server.
All remaining
.dbx files correspond to Outlook Express folders with the same
name. For example, Inbox.dbx corresponds to your inbox folder
in OE and MyFolder.dbx corresponds to 'MyFolder' folder in OE.
You can also find the full path of the dbx file corresponding
to a OE folder by right-clicking that folder in OE and then clicking
"Properties".
The actual
emails of a Outlook Express folder are stored in its corresponding
dbx file.
Therefore,
if you accidentally delete an email in an Outlook Express folder
called 'MyFolder', then you should find the file 'MyFolder.dbx',
use Advanced Outlook Express Recovery to recover the deleted email
from it, and then import the recovered email back into Outlook
Express.
Note:
If you cannot even start Outlook Express, then you can use the
"Search" function in Windows to find the .dbx files,
as follows:
1 Click "Start" menu
2 Click "Search" menuitem and then "For Files and
Folders"
3 Input *.dbx as the search criterion.
4 Click "Search Now" to find all .dbx files on your
local disk.
5 In "Search Results", recover email from the corresponding
dbx files with Advanced Outlook Express Recovery.
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