I'm sure it's quiite easy but I'm not all that techy!! Which one do I use? I appreciate any assistance and apologize for what are probably pretty basic questions for you. Regards, Semperfi Here's how to do it. Open the Recycle bin. If you have a lot of junk in it, hold down the Control key while using the mouse to select just the BAK files. Be sure to get the Folders. This has to be in the folder with the other files for the Import to work.
Go to the Desktop and right click a blank area. Name it Backup. Right click the file and select Rename on the menu. Click at the end of the now highlighted name and just backspace the bak to the period and then type dbx. Example: Folders. Click Yes on the warning notice about changing the file type. You're actually making the file usable. Otherwise you could wind up with Folders. Open OE. Let it run and hopefully everything will Import successfully.
Hi Throoper, You are a genious and a life saver!!! Thank you for your assistance. There is no direct way in MS Outlook that to import. So, a user must opt a reliable third party solution i.
Outlook PST file Repair tool. It is an impeccable tool that repairs MS Outlook. Hence, to recover the Outlook. So, In this blog, we described manual methods along with their limitations.
Also, we suggested a third party application which is the best way to recover and restore outlook. It helps to import. I stumbled across your answer to"How to Restore a.
I have tried other fixes to my problem and ended up making it worse. I think this "BAK" answer would have worked but you have to tell me how to apply it to where I am now with the extra problem I've created. On 21??????? I read your article below and thanks to you, I restored all of it. However, I lost a week of items I think because I waited a week to do this and the.
Any thoughts for how to restore the week's worth of items. I still have the old Inbox. I need to back up and for that reason installed Steve Cochran's OETool and OEQB, and while in the same directory, they will not synch enabling me to use what appears to be a simple one step back up tool with built in redundancy. To avoid confusion, in the future it would be best if you did not change the subject of a thread, and even better if you started your own new thread.
I honestly don't know why it can't be renamed. Your compacting process was probably interrupted, causing the loss of the. Thks Bruce I did the steps until I got stuck here -. The messages should now be back in the folder'. The first part of my reply tells you how to find the Message Store.
When in the Recycle Bin, did you click Restore? When you click Rename, the name is highlighted in blue. When I click Rename, I can change the highlighted blue to Foldername. Its ok. I honestly do not know why it cannot be renamed. I hope someone else has an. Although written for WinXP, it works for all Windows operating systems 98 or newer. Explorer, Control Tools open 6 locate to Start view later without be folder back the.
On Thursday, November 20, PM. Outlook Express problem Hi Bruce and others. Lost items I compacted about a week ago and lost a month of Inbox and 7 months of Sentbox. Lost items--this may be a repeat I compacted about a week ago and lost a month of Inbox and 7 months of Sentbox. Thanks, Amber Bruce Hagen wrote:. Re: how to restore a. To restore a bak folder to the message store folder, first locate the Message Store in Windows Explorer. Previous Posts In This Thread:. BAK file.
Let's say it is Foldername. You cannot change it to Foldername. BAK file Thks. On 26????? Close the Message Store and open E. If youhave IE7, you have to remove it first. In the previous post, "Peter" was having difficulty changing his.
BAK files to. I had the same problem, because my Windows XP did not show file extensions. It just showed the file name and a separate box showing the file type. So when I would change the file name, it would still be listed as a. Eventually, I realized that there must be a setting somewhere in Windows to hide or show the file extensions, and what I had to do was locate and change that setting.
It will then be possile to change the file extension. This information probably comes too late to help Peter, but perhaps it will benefit some other struggling individual who finds this page. Do you know for sure which dbx file has your Inbox messages?
If you think you do, and I'm not so sure with your explanation as only one can exist at a time, close OE, drag it to the Desktop and rename it, following the instructions here. While in compacting process it was interrupted and I have lost 2 months mail from sent items. I have deleted the. I tried to restore my PC but couldn't succeed. Kindly let me know how do I restore my. Look forward for your quick response.
Normally I have no problem following directions but I'm afraid I really lost control of restoring the inbox in OE. I think I changed. So I have a. I can ID it by size so how do I extracate myself from all my mistakes? Why does OE insist on compacting folders when I close it? To restore a bak folder to the message store folder, first find the location of the Message Store. In WinXP, the. Close OE and then in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the. If there. They will eventually become.
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