Is it possible to repair damaged .dbx file???

Jim C. Pickering

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Jul 10, 2001, 11:10:15 PM7/10/01

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That particular dbx file has 3 messages in it. 2 from a humor list and one from a private party. Try using DBXtract on the files to extract the contents as individual eml files which you can drag/drop into a local mail folder you create in Outlook Express.
http://chattanooga.net/~scochran/DBXtract.htm

The eml files in it are as follows:
Re from Yula 24 Nov, once more (1)
Weekly humorous internet news-sheet (2)
--
Jim Pickering, MVP (Outlook Express)
Please reply to group only. Email cannot be answered.
http://members.home.com/jlpick99/oe.htm

"Elena" <ezape...@tecaustralia.com.au> wrote in message news:#o9j80aCBHA.1260@tkmsftngp07...
> I tried everything possible to import the messages back to OE5 (and OE5.5)
> after reinstalling it. I checked this link:
> Backing Up and Restoring OE5 Files and Settings
> http://chattanooga.net/~scochran/backup.htm
> Nothing works. It appears that the files are damaged and cannot be imported
> although OE does not report any errors, just ignores the files. When I open
> .dbx file using text editor though, I can still see all the messages. Is it
> possible to somehow repair the file?
>
> OE5 was originally installed on Windows NT4.0 Workstation, hard disk was
> formatted as FAT16. Firts time I reinstalled Win98 on top of WinNT and
> imported all messages fine. But after that manually copied all dbx files on
> another hard disk and reformatted system hard disk as NTFS. Reinstalled the
> sytem and OE5 and ...I've lost all my correspondence! Please HELP! I
> attached a sample file if you want to have a look.
>
>
>
>

D Guess

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Jul 10, 2001, 11:17:10 PM7/10/01

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Yeah, just the three messages. Not even worth the effort.

dg

"Jim C. Pickering" <jimpic...@home.com> wrote in message
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Steve Cochran

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Jul 11, 2001, 8:13:26 AM7/11/01

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Hey, at least she didn't post a 30 meg dbx file. Someone emailed me one last week. It had no messages in it, either.

<G>

steve

"D Guess" <ma...@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:ecMBTgbCBHA.576@tkmsftngp02...

Elena

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Jul 11, 2001, 9:29:59 PM7/11/01

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Thanks to everyone and particularly to Steve for your help. To my greatest
relief I recovered most of my messages using Steve's DBXtract program.
Thanks indeed!
I also disovered how newsgroups work, very impressing. I will keep them in
mind if I come across with a different problem.

Have a good day everyone!

"Steve Cochran" <scoc...@chattanooga.net> wrote in message
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D Guess

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Jul 12, 2001, 12:00:19 AM7/12/01

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Oh I remember those days of getting them with help on how to recover some
Stationery..... I think the biggest one I got was on about four meg thnak
goodness. Now anything over a particular size is automatically deleted if it
isn't from particular people. <G>

dg

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Steve Cochran

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Jul 12, 2001, 8:03:14 AM7/12/01

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Or particular felines. <VBG>

steve

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D Guess

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Jul 13, 2001, 1:19:02 AM7/13/01

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Keep them off the telephone pole and I'm happy <G>

"Steve Cochran" <scoc...@chattanooga.net> wrote in message

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Steve Cochran

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Jul 13, 2001, 8:57:24 AM7/13/01

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As if I have any control. <G>

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Oct 11, 2013, 8:44:17 AM10/11/13

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Hi, Jim C. Pickering

Yes, it is possible task to repair damaged .dbx file.
A friend of mine, suggest me for using Outlook Express Restore program, I make search from Google and used. It was my unmemorable experience. My all worry gone away instantly.

TRY- http://howto-repairdbxfile.tumblr.com/

You will capable to get back up of email files also will able to reuse.
Good Luck!