OE offered to compact my Local Folders. After this process was complete the
Inbox indicated that "There are no items in this view." Where have they
gone? Can I recover them? If so, how is this done?

Many thanks,

Peter.

Why it happens:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and #4)
and http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 (Notes section under
Resolution)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Avoiding Such Corruption in Future:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently
perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

- WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
automatically compacting your message store.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

PVR wrote:
> OE offered to compact my Local Folders. After this process was complete
> the
> Inbox indicated that "There are no items in this view." Where have they
> gone? Can I recover them? If so, how is this done?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Peter.

Why don't antivirus email scanning programs provide no additional
protection? I use Norton and the only problem I've seen is that it delays
the downloading of messages. Isn't it able to catch virus-infected
attachments or viruses embedded in email texts?


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uDPJIh3aIHA.4208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Why it happens:
>
> http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx
>
> Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and #4)
> and http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 (Notes section under
> Resolution)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
> http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Avoiding Such Corruption in Future:
>
> - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
> folders created for this purpose.
>
> - Empty Deleted Items folder daily.
>
> - Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently
> perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More
at
> http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm
>
> - WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
> automatically compacting your message store.
>
> - Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
> corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>
> PVR wrote:
> > OE offered to compact my Local Folders. After this process was complete
> > the
> > Inbox indicated that "There are no items in this view." Where have they
> > gone? Can I recover them? If so, how is this done?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Peter.
>

See the link I cited:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

Even Symantec says it's not necessary:

<QP>
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions.
</QP>
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106
--
~PA Bear



DaffyD® wrote:
> Why don't antivirus email scanning programs provide no additional
> protection? I use Norton and the only problem I've seen is that it delays
> the downloading of messages. Isn't it able to catch virus-infected
> attachments or viruses embedded in email texts?
>
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uDPJIh3aIHA.4208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Why it happens:
>>
>> http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone
>>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx
>>
>> Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and
>> #4)
>> and http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 (Notes section under
>> Resolution)
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
>> http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Avoiding Such Corruption in Future:
>>
>> - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
>> folders created for this purpose.
>>
>> - Empty Deleted Items folder daily.
>>
>> - Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently
>> perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More
>> at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm
>>
>> - WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
>> automatically compacting your message store.
>>
>> - Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
>> such
>> corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
>> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
>> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>>
>> PVR wrote:
>>> OE offered to compact my Local Folders. After this process was complete
>>> the
>>> Inbox indicated that "There are no items in this view." Where have they
>>> gone? Can I recover them? If so, how is this done?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Peter.

You are lucky. E-mail scanning is not needed, and Norton and McAfee programs
are not compatible with OE. As far as e-mail scanning goes, It was first
introduced by Symantec after they bought the company from Peter Norton.
While it does scan e-mail, the reason it was developed was as a marketing
theme to make people feel they would be safer. Nothing is farther from the
truth.

Turning off e-mail scanning is safe. See:

Viral Irony: The Most Common Cause of Corruption.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...ion.mspx#EOAAC

And:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

And this is from Symantec, but applies to all anti-virus programs.

From:
http://snipurl.com/bmf6

Is my computer still protected against viruses if I disable Email Scanning?

Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"DaffyD®" <daffyd@woohoo.com> wrote in message
news:OtJredEbIHA.4344@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Why don't antivirus email scanning programs provide no additional
> protection? I use Norton and the only problem I've seen is that it delays
> the downloading of messages. Isn't it able to catch virus-infected
> attachments or viruses embedded in email texts?
>
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uDPJIh3aIHA.4208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Why it happens:
>>
>> http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone
>>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx
>>
>> Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and
>> #4)
>> and http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 (Notes section under
>> Resolution)
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
>> http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Avoiding Such Corruption in Future:
>>
>> - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
>> folders created for this purpose.
>>
>> - Empty Deleted Items folder daily.
>>
>> - Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently
>> perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More
> at
>> http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm
>>
>> - WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
>> automatically compacting your message store.
>>
>> - Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
>> such
>> corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
>> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
>> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>>
>> PVR wrote:
>> > OE offered to compact my Local Folders. After this process was complete
>> > the
>> > Inbox indicated that "There are no items in this view." Where have they
>> > gone? Can I recover them? If so, how is this done?
>> >
>> > Many thanks,
>> >
>> > Peter.
>>
>
>

Many thanks. I Searched on *.db* and found 43 files. None of them were
recognizable as "Inbox", "Outbox", "Sent Items", etc. One file was named
Mail.dbf. Is this the file I should attempt to recover? If not, what is the
filenane?

Again, many thanks,

Peter.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uDPJIh3aIHA.4208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Why it happens:
>
> http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx
>
> Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and #4)
> and http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 (Notes section under
> Resolution)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
> http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Avoiding Such Corruption in Future:
>
> - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
> folders created for this purpose.
>
> - Empty Deleted Items folder daily.
>
> - Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently
> perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More
> at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm
>
> - WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
> automatically compacting your message store.
>
> - Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
> corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>
> PVR wrote:
>> OE offered to compact my Local Folders. After this process was complete
>> the
>> Inbox indicated that "There are no items in this view." Where have they
>> gone? Can I recover them? If so, how is this done?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Peter.
>

Repost: [See] http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 and the Notes
section under Resolution.

Is there a file named INBOX.BAK in the Recycle Bin?
--
~PA Bear

PVR wrote:
> Many thanks. I Searched on *.db* and found 43 files. None of them were
> recognizable as "Inbox", "Outbox", "Sent Items", etc. One file was named
> Mail.dbf. Is this the file I should attempt to recover? If not, what is
> the
> filenane?
>
> Again, many thanks,
>
> Peter.
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uDPJIh3aIHA.4208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Why it happens:
>>
>> http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx
>>
>> Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and
>> #4)
>> and http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 (Notes section under
>> Resolution)
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality)
>> http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Avoiding Such Corruption in Future:
>>
>> - Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
>> folders created for this purpose.
>>
>> - Empty Deleted Items folder daily.
>>
>> - Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently
>> perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More
>> at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm
>>
>> - WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
>> automatically compacting your message store.
>>
>> - Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
>> such
>> corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
>> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
>> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>>
>> PVR wrote:
>>> OE offered to compact my Local Folders. After this process was complete
>>> the
>>> Inbox indicated that "There are no items in this view." Where have they
>>> gone? Can I recover them? If so, how is this done?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Peter.