Emails lost from outlook express inbox.dbx

This is the most common situation we face with Outlook Express as we loose lot of our important emails and moreover we do not know the exact reason.Outlook Express is a free component which gets installed with Internet Explorer which has been replaced by Windows Mail in Vista with Internet Explorer 7.0.

But still today it is competing with email clients such Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird and Lotus Notes and has quite good number of users.Suddenly emails getting disappeared from our dbx folders could be a result of:

1. Oversized DBX file
2. Corruption caused after using Compact option
3. Any other file corruption caused due to improper shut down or malfunction of any third party applications.

The good news is that those lost emails can be recovered. First locate all your dbx files, the ost common path for DBX store folder is %drive%Documents & Settings<User Name>Local SettingsApplication DataIdentities {UID} and backup all of them.

Take a copy of all the DBX files which needs to be repaired, from where you are looking to recover lost emails. Download the demo copy of DD DBX Repair demo version from the below mentioned link:

Download Free dbx Repair Trial

Run the software and follow on screen procedure, you may select the default identity displayed by the software or you can pick files separately by browsing for them. Select the destination path for the recovered DBX file and let the software scan the file. Demo version would scan files for the lost emails and being a demo version could save only 3 emails in .eml format to the destination path. But would tell you total numbers emails it has found.

You now just need to buy the software to download the full version of the software and unlock the same to re-recover the same dbx file and this time you should get all the emails. The output would in .eml format inside a folder, you just need to create a folder in Outlook Express and drag and drop these “eml” files inside a DBX folder to restore all your lost emails.