Lost In Box E.mails

[davidanthony]

For some reason, only a few of my daily In Box E.mails in Outlook Express are visible the following day - where are the others ??.
I have not deleted, they ae not in the In Box Archive, nor are they in Spam

[Buenchico]

You appear to have a corrupt Inbox file. The following won't help retrieve your missing emails (sorry!) but it should stop the problem happening again:

Open Outlook Express

Create a new folder. (Call it 'Temp', 'Inbox2' or whatever. You just need it to 'park' your Inbox emails while you fix the Inbox).

Copy all of the emails in your Inbox into your new folder.

Close Outlook Express.

Run a search in Windows Explorer to find the file Inbox.dbx.

Note its location (just in case the next stage goes wrong and you need to put it back there) then move it to somewhere else (such as your desktop).

Outlook Express now hasn't got an Inbox at all but the lovely thing about Outlook Express is that it should automatically create a new one when you open it. So that's what you should now do.

If everything has gone well, you should now have a fully working, but empty, Inbox (which WON'T keep losing files). You can copy the files you 'parked' in the temporary folder back into the new Inbox and then delete the temporary folder.

[If Outlook Express doesn't create a new Inbox you can always move the old file back to its original location. However I've deleted .dbx files on countless occasions and Outlook Express has always created new ones for me. Assuming that it has done so, you can now delete the dodgy Inbox.dbx file]