Outlook Express dbx Repair Tool

Recovering lost or deleted emails from Outlook Express involves two main operation

• Repair .dbx files
• Import emails to outlook Express

Repairing corrupted .dbx file(s) using DD DBX Repair is very easy. The new version provides very easy to use interface that helps users with least technical knowledge to recover lost or deleted emails from corrupted .dbx file(s) easily.

Please follow the steps below to repair corrupted .dbx files.

1. Run the application either by double clicking on application icon on the desktop or from Programs list in Start menu. The application main window is displayed as show in Figure a.

Figure a : Application main window

2. Click the button to select a .dbx file that has lost / deleted emails. The program scans the drive for .dbx files and lists all the identities present in the drive. Select an identity which has .dbx file that has lost / deleted emails to be recovered. The application application displays all the .dbx files from the selected identity as shown in Figure b.

Figure b : Select source file to repair

Note: You can also browse for a .dbx file by clicking Browse button, if the .dbx file you wish to repair is not listed in the list of .dbx files. This can be done only if you know where exactly the .dbx file is located.

3. Select a .dbx file that has lost or deleted emails and click Next button. As you click Next button, the application displays a window to select destination path to save your recovered emails (See Figure c).

Figure c : Select destination path

DD DBX Repair provides two options to save recovered data.

• Save data to local drive
• Burn data to CD/DVD

Select the destination path, check "Compress repaired file(s)" option if you want to save recovered data in compressed form and click OK. As you click OK button, the application starts repairing the selected .dbx file to locate lost / deleted emails and recovers all found emails in a new folder by name "xxxx recoveredx" in selected destination location. All the found emails will be recovered in a .eml format.

You can now import recovered emails (.eml files) to Outlook Express folders in the Outlook Express program, or double click the .eml files to read them.

Note: If you have selected multiple .dbx files to repair, then all the recovered emails will be restored in their respective folders in a new folder by name "Recovered dbxX" in selected destination location.

If you are restoring the data in compressed form, then all the emails will be restored in "xxxx Recovered.zip" or if you have multiple .dbx files to repair then all the emails will be restored in respective zip files in a new folder by name "Recovered dbxX" in selected destination location.

 

Related Topics
Import Repaired / Recovered emails
Recover and Repair emails and save to local disk
Recover and Repair emails and Burn to CD / DVD

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