Please help lost all my e-mails from outlook express 6

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Chester Draws

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To free up disc space on C drive today my tech chap copied all my e-mails, ie, inbox, sent items etc in to a back up folder on my E drive and set it all up so they could be opened as normal in outlook express on C but be stored on E to save disc space, but now we can't find them any where ? when he first did it it worked a treat and there was no problem but bit by bit they have all dissapeared and now we can't find them any where on the computer, the inbox on C is empty and I have no sent items etc either so lost loads of key information, when we look in the Outlook express back up folder he created on E we can see them but as almost empty .DBX files but they have shrunk from really big files of 600/900 KB to really small folders at i.e 75KB and 203KB, is there any way of retrieving them ?, I run a small business and work from home and there is lots of really important info that I can't afford to lose, please help if you can I'm getting really woriied about this.
 
Do a file search for .dbx files and see if they exist. Moving emails to a different drive would be the last thing I would do to gain space. You should have moved your documents to a different drive, ran ccleaner, reduced the size that system restore uses, ran disc cleanup, removed any software no longer needed. Or as a last resort, clone your existing drive to a new bigger drive.
 
LoL I must say johnb35 is right.Moving your mail data will not really make a big difference to free space unless if you have billions and billions and billions of mails and I am pretty sure you don't have that much lol.

What is EXACTLY what you have been doing on the computer before your mails disappeared?

Did you try to look for them on the DEFAULT Outlook Express location?
The default location is:

C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserAccountName\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{5D07153C-AEC4-407B-8EFE-A39A95D01477}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

Also go to SEARCH and search for ".dbx" files.
NOTE: Be sure that in the MORE ADVANCED OPTIONS you turn ON the following things:

-Type of file: All Files and Folders
-Search system folders
-Search hidden files and folders
-Search subfolders
-Case sensitive
-Search tape backup

Under the "Look in:" set up the drive you want to search.Start from C: and then do the same on other drives such as E:

Also be sure that in the FOLDER OPTIONS you turn ON the option to show hidden data and system data.



Let us know if it helped.




Cheers!
 
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