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lost emails after formating
Name: syrian_gamer Date: March 24, 2005 at 19:27:08 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: 512mb
Comment:
hello, i recently had to format my pc, but i did a "non destructive" recovery which saves everything into a folder in drive c. what i want to know is if there is any way to obtain the emails that i had before i formated. the emails we opened with outlook express. urgent reply needed/appreciated thankyou
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: March 25, 2005 at 09:19:52 Pacific
Reply:
Your mailboxes for Outlook Express will be under your User ID in that particular folder. You can do a search for dbx files, and those are your mailboxes.
If you want the entire path, please post back, and I'll type it in for you.
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Response Number 2
Name: syrian_gamer Date: March 25, 2005 at 11:05:19 Pacific
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i would like to know where to find it and how to restore them. thank you for your help. if its not to much trouble email me at syrian_gamer@hotmail.com
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Response Number 3
Name: syrian_gamer Date: March 25, 2005 at 11:19:44 Pacific
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i did a search for *.dbx files, and i just want to know if its a matter of cutting and pasting the old files into the new folders?
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Response Number 4
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato) Date: March 26, 2005 at 07:50:01 Pacific
Reply:
That's it. Just make sure that OE is not running when you do it though
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