Outlook Express 6.0. Inbox.dbx is corrupt.

Hi! I am using OE 6.0. Yesterday when I opened my OE, my emails in inbox were gone. Ive tried a solution of copying all of my emails folder to some other location and then renaming my inbox.dbx to inbox.dbx.old . This didn't work. Please help me to solve the
problem!

Hello,
The current forum is for Microsoft Office Outlook, nor Outlook Express or Windows Mail. I'd suggest asking non-programming questions on the
Microsoft Community
forums.

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2800 e-mails appeared in the dust bin as a batch.
I transferred (relocated) them to: "Local setting/Application data/Identities", but could not be opened any email.
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If you carefully follow these instructions, you may be able to recover them.
1. First CLOSE Outlook Express.
2. Hopefully you haven’t emptied your recycle bin yet. DON’T EMPTY IT.
3. Click to open your Recycle Bin and do check it. Do you see any files that end in .bak, like drafts.bak, sent.bak, and
especially inbox.bak. If you do, it’s recoverable. But DON’T right-click and choose restore YET. (If you don’t see the files there, they may be in another folder, which you’ll get to later. At any case, they’ll have the .bak extension.)
4. If you’re not already viewing details, choose VIEW from the top menu, and click on DETAILS. This is so you can see the
original file location.
5. The original file location could look something like this:  - C:\Documents and Settings\Default\Local
Settings\Application Data\Identities\some string\inbox.bak  - (Default could be some other name, some string is the string that you were given, which is different for different users.)
6. You’re going to have to find that original folder, but you might have to reveal hidden files and folders to do so. Local
Settings are usually hidden.  - Click START, Choose CONTROL PANEL, and Click FOLDER OPTIONS (for Windows 7, you’ll have to click on APPEARANCE AND PERSONALIZATION link first before you can click on FOLDER OPTIONS.) Then click
VIEW and look in the ADVANCED SETTINGS Window for SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS. Click that radio button if it isn’t already chosen, then click the OK button.
7. Now you’re ready. Find that folder, and look for an inbox.dbx. That is your current INBOX.
8. Right-click inbox.dbx and rename it inbox2.dbx, just in case
9. Now you can go back to your Recycle Bin, right click inbox.bak, and choose RESTORE.
10. That file inbox.bak should now be in the folder you just found.
11. Right click inbox.bak and rename it inbox.dbx
12. Now open Outlook Express and your inbox messages should be restored.
OR if that doesn’t work ..
From the Outlook Express Top Menu, click File > Import > Messages >
Choose the email program you use  If it was Outlook Express 6, then choose >Import Mail
from an OE6
Store Directory
> Click OK, and browse for that folder you just found
> Click and choose inbox.dbx or whichever file you want to restore, those messages should be restored.
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Hi, cor-el,
Thank you for responding so quickly!
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My Outlook Express is losing inbox messages. I had many in my inbox, shut down the PC.
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The current forum is for developers. I'd suggest asking non-programming questions on the
Outlook IT Pro Discussions or
Microsoft Community forums instead.

How can I read my incoming emails in one folder?Like I do in Live mail and Outlook express.

Now we can only read emails in different folders if I am managing multiple email accounts.
It does not feel so comfortable as we use Live mail and Outlook express.

'''Unified Inbox for pop and Imap mail accounts:'''
If you use the Unified folder view, this will show an Inbox with all emails from all accounts, with sub folder Inboxes for the individual Inboxes for the various accounts. Then you can choose to view the collective Inbox or the individual Inbox.
This method can be chosen simply and quickly.
* View > folders > Unified
'''Setting up Pop mail accounts to use Global Inbox.'''
Pop mail accounts can be set up to use a Global Inbox in Local Folders.
Imap mail accounts cannot be set up to use Global Inbox, but can use the Unified view.
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Then change the settings for each pop mail account.
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click on 'Advanced' button
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click on OK
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Then close Thunderbird. You must do this before downloading anything otherwise the emails may continue to go to the wrong Inbox.
Wait a few moments for Thunderbird to fully close and then restart Thunderbird.
Please read more info on global inbox here:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Global_Inbox

Outlook Express Error 0x800c0133 (corrupted inbox file)

I use Outlook Express. I can send, but not receive. I have deleted the many emails that had never been deleted, but still can not receive. I have been
told I have a corrupted Inbox file. Something about the Inbox.dbx, but I don't know or how to correct this error.

It may be possible to fix the problem using these steps :
Open Outlook Express
Click "Local Folders" in the left side navigation
Select New Folder and name it TEMP
If possible move all of the email from your Inbox to the TEMP folder
Go to menu bar and select Tools -> Options -> Maintenance -> Store Folder and then write down the location of your
inbox
Close Outlook Express,
Use My Computer to go to the location is step 5 and then delete the file inbox.dbx
Open Outlook Express - The Inbox folder should be auto recreated.
Move your email from the TEMP folder back to your Inbox
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email in the version of Outlook Express your are using. You may want to try some of the methods listed in
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Seems to be it should move it without having to do this , but strange things can happen!!

Outlook express is notorious for corrupt DBX files. not always such that things do not work in Ouytlook express.
Tools menu (Alt+T) > import and you can retry the import as often as you like. Each try will create an outlook expresss [number] folder under local folders with what it has obtained in them.
Note that import maiol only hey... your setting apparently came first time round.
I would suggest running one of the DBX repair tools on outlook express toi be sure.

How to repair damaged DBX file of outlook express?

I am currently having 4 GB data available in inbox.dbx. But there is one problem with that. I am not able to see my mails as header corrupt the dbx files. This is very annoying. I tried many things to solve the problem from my side but it was not helpful
to me. So I am leaving the question over here so that I can get the response from you people that what should I do to repair the damaged DBX file of outlook express. Thank you so much in advance for reading and replying to this thread.

The manual solution starts with finding or locating the corrupted DBX file(s). You need to start the Registry
Editor to find the location where Outlook Express stores its files. Follow the steps given below to know how to do this:
Press Win+R to open the Run window.
Type regedit into
it and press enter.
The Registry Editor window will be opened. In the left hand side pane, expand the folders in
this manner:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Identities > XYZ > Software > Microsoft > Outlook
Express > 5.0
Now in the right hand side pane, locate the Store Root settings from the list and double-click
it.
The path will be shown where Outlook Express stores its files. Copy the full path from there.
Once you have copied the path, you need to move the mailbox file(s). Follow the steps given below to know
how to do this:
First of all close the Outlook Express program if it is opened.
Now paste the path (copied earlier) on your Windows directory and press enter.
You can copy or move all the files from this location to a new location. After that, delete all the files from the
original location if you have copied them.
In the third step, you need to import the DBX file(s) into Outlook Express. It would be easy for Outlook
Express to import the file(s) without causing any trouble. Follow the steps given below to know how to do this:
Start Outlook Express on your system.
Click on File menu > Import.
The Outlook Express Import window
will be opened. Select the Outlook Express version in the list from which you want to import the emails. If you are unsure with that, you can select Outlook Express 6. Click on Next.
Now click on Browse to select the directory where the files are saved. This is the very same
directory in which you have moved the files from original location earlier. Click on Next.
Select the items you want to import. For example: you can import All folders or the Selected
folders. Click on Next.
Now start your Outlook Express and check your mailbox folders again.

My .dbx files were crashed. How to make outlook express repair?

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Hey!
The solution to repair DBX files of Outlook Express consist of importing the corrupt files to Outlook Express and then accessing it again.
The very first step is to locate the corrupt DBX files by Registry Editor. After that, follow the instructions given in this post:
nalavadebela.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/feasible-technique-to-repair-damaged-dbx-files-of-outlook-express/
You can also use Outlook application without losing your DBX files by converting all your DBX files to PST format.
SysInfoTools DBX to PST Converter helps you to process this conversion in batch, i.e. you can convert multiple DBX files to PST at one time.
Thanks.

Outlook Express dbx oversize bug

Hi
I´m using Outlook Express 6 and now my inbox DBX folder has reached 2 GB size.
I thought that deleating the mails is enough.
So I deleated the mails with attachments and kept plain-text mails in my inbox.
Now I have a DBX inbox file of 2 GB and no more mails in the inbox.
What can I do now to recover my mails?
Thank you for your help.
Martin

You can easily use outlook express recovery with the help of OE-Mail Recovery
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Outlook Express Inbox is crashed. Can i repair it?

Outlook Express Inbox is crashed. Can i repair it?

There are two possible reasons of this problem, if .dbx files are damaged than you can recover it with this soft called
OE-Mail Recovery:
http://www.oemailrecovery.com/repair-outlook-express.html
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Thunderbird crashes when importing high amount of Outlook Express .dbx files.

Greetings !
I'm trying to make a migration from Outlook Express to Thunderbird for a professional. His mail folder is made of around 1400 .dbx files (18GB of mails -woh-). Every time I'm trying to do the importation, Thunderbird crashes.
I think I should specify that this importation is happening on the new computer I set up and from the old hard drive.
I also tried importing small amounts : it worked but it's killing the file tree, which is not acceptable on a such amount of mails.
I found mention of an 'Undbx' software that could help me. I'll try it very soon and report.
I will provide a dxdiag.txt soon too, but I really think the PC is set up correctly (I have some experience in this domain).
Importing this mail folder is critical since it's a professional need, so I'm relying on you and deeply thank you for your effort here.
PS : English is not my native tongue, excuse the grammar and spelling mistakes.

Dear Matt.
I can proudly announced the problem is solved !
In 'accounts settings' (not sure of my translation here), I set the mail storage folder to a new one, near the hard drive root, then launched the importation. And it went just well, keeping up the file tree and all.
Thank you a lot for the informations you gave me. I wouldn't have found out the path length is limited to 255 without you. '''You rock, sir !'''
I owe you.
Keep up the good work. Thanks again.
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you are still experiencing problems, proceed with the following steps to reinstall Internet Explorer.
http://www.filerepairforum.com/forum/microsoft/microsoft-aa/outlook-express/616-emails-and-address-book-are-gone
Go to the "Microsoft Support" website provided to you in the Sources section of this article, then scroll down to the section entitled "Method 2: Reinstall Internet Explorer."
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Decode Attachment in OutLook Express .dbx with MimeUtility?

Hi boys,
I want to extract an attachment (encoded in base64 format) from outlook express .dbx file.
I construct 2 classes :
- the first extract from dbx file the attachment data and write it to disk.
- the second read from disk and decode with MimeUtility class (JavaMail).
The result is that the final file decoded is 600 byte less the original.
sigh!.
Can Anyone help me?
Thanks Emanuele
These are the classes :
package dbxreader;
import java.io.*;
* Title: 
* Description: 
* Copyright: Copyright (c) 2004
* Company: 
* @author not attributable
* @version 1.0
public class Reading // THIS CLASS EXTRACT FROM DBX
private BufferedReader reader;
private FileOutputStream output;
private boolean complete = false;
public Reading()
public void parse(String archive,String fileName) throws IOException
reader= new BufferedReader(new FileReader(archive));
boolean found=false;
while(!found)
String line=reader.readLine();
if(line!=null)
int i=line.indexOf("filename=\""+fileName+"\"");
if(i!=-1)
found=true;
extractFile();
output.close();
reader.close();
private void extractFile() throws IOException
boolean finish=false;
boolean firstAttempt=true;
output= new FileOutputStream("solobyte.dat");
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byte[] dest;
int numberfBytes=reader.read(buffer);
if(firstAttempt)
dest=new byte[numberfBytes-2];
byte[] src=new String(buffer).getBytes("iso-8859-1");
System.arraycopy(src,2,dest,0,dest.length);
//String stringa=new String(dest);
firstAttempt=false;
else
byte[] src=new String(buffer).getBytes("iso-8859-1");
dest=new byte[numberfBytes];
System.arraycopy(src,0,dest,0,dest.length);
// controllo se il file e finito
// e scrivo l'array
String appoggio=new String(dest);
int index=appoggio.indexOf("------=_NextPart_");
if(index!=-1)
byte[] newdest=new byte[index-4];
System.arraycopy(dest,0,newdest,0,newdest.length);
System.out.print("Ci sono");
String prova=new String(dest);
finish=true;
String prova2=new String(newdest);
output.write(newdest);
output.flush();
else
output.write(dest);
output.flush();
System.out.print("ciao");
public static void main(String[] args)
try
Reading reading = new Reading();
reading.parse("Posta in arrivo.dbx", "PathAssolutoW.exe");
catch (IOException ex)
ex.printStackTrace();
THIS CLASS rRECONSTRUCT THE FILE
package dbxreader;
import java.io.*;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeUtility;
import javax.mail.*;
* Title: 
* Description: 
* Copyright: Copyright (c) 2004
* Company: 
* @author not attributable
* @version 1.0
public class Decode {
public Decode() {
public static void main(String[] args)
try {
// FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File("Prova.txt"));
//FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File("Temp64.txt"));
FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File("solobyte.dat"));
InputStream stream = MimeUtility.decode(file, "base64");
FileOutputStream output =new FileOutputStream("PathAssolutoW.exe");
//FileOutputStream output =new FileOutputStream("PathAssolutow.exe");
int iter=0;
while(stream.available()>0)
byte[] buffer=new byte[4096];
int nbytes=stream.read(buffer);
output.write(buffer,0,nbytes);
output.flush();
stream.close();
output.close();
// FileOutputStream output =new FileOutputStream("path.exe");
output.close();
catch (MessagingException ex)
ex.printStackTrace();
catch (FileNotFoundException ex)
ex.printStackTrace();
catch(IOException ex)
ex.printStackTrace();
}

The situation is this :
i have send to myself a mail with an attachment pathassolutow.exe.
The original file info are(from right click and properties)
- 85.854 byte dimension
- 86.016 byte on disk
When i launch my process (the two classes) the result is:
- 85.237 byte dimension
- 86.016 byte on disk
there is a difference :
85.854 before
85.237 after
If i try to launch the result file i get an error.
I open the result file(85.237 bytes) with visual studio tool depends.
I have get an error " NO PE SIGNATURE FOUND.This File is Not a valid win32 module.
This application write on c a text file.
Thanks for the reply Emanuele

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