{"id":1038,"date":"2009-07-17T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2009-07-17T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T09:04:00","slug":"an-interesting-problem-with-outlook-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"An &quot;interesting&quot; problem with Outlook Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often Outlook Express compacts messages. It would appear as though some time last week, when it was doing so, it wiped several of my e-mail folders down to nothing. I do have a back-up &#8211; a couple of months old &#8211; but I was just wondering if anyone knew of a way to <span>merge <\/span>the back up with the existing folder files, so that I don&#8217;t lose the material accumulated since I did the back-up. All help gratefully received.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, it&#8217;s another hint to take me off Microsoft completely.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: found this, which (hopefully) will do most of the work:<\/p>\n<p>The BAK files your OE folders before compacting. They are copied there<br \/>as a precaution in case something goes wrong with the compacting.<\/p>\n<p>1) Look in OE at Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder for the<br \/>location of your Store Folder. Then close OE.<\/p>\n<p>2) Go to Recycle Bin and restore the most recent Sent Items.bak file.<br \/>That will put it in OE Store folder, but still as a BAK file.<\/p>\n<p>3) Open the Windows File Explorer and look at the store folder you found<br \/>in step 1. (You may need to enable the the display Hidden and System<br \/>files in Tools, Folder Options, View as well as uncheck the option to<br \/>Hide extensions of known file types. You should see both a Sent<br \/>Items.dbx file as well as the Sent Items.bak. Rename the Sent Items.DBX<br \/>to Sentold.dbx and then rename Sent Items.Bak to Sent Items.DBX. When<br \/>you open OE, your Sent Items messages should be restored.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often Outlook Express compacts messages. It would appear as though some time last week, when it was doing so, it wiped several of my e-mail folders down to nothing. I do have a back-up &#8211; a couple of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1038\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-gK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}