Lost emails....

[Ann]

I am gutted, can someone please help me. I have just come back to my computer and found all my Inbox emails from August 2011 until 2.30pm today have been wiped. Have i lost them forever or can I recover them from somewhere please. I have looked in my Delete box and they don't appear to be in there. Can some kind techie soul please help?

[The Builder]

psssst Ann, you'll need to give the technos .......
Windows version
Which email software?
Which browser?

[Hopkirk]

Well it has saved you a job!

[rov1100]

If they are still on your computer somewhere this video may help

[Smowball]

Dont you just love blooming computers!!

[rov1100]

If your search for *.dbx files shows a blank then return to the search but click on advanced search and then click on hidden files. Then rerun looking for *.dbx files.

[Ann]

Hi all thanks for all your suggestions, I have been waiting to talk to my brother who understands about this. Thanks for the youtube clip Rov, it was most useful. I tried to do everything it suggested on there and followed it through, but when I copy and pasted the file in my In box folder I couldn't open the contents it just kept downloading everything and never stopped .............. for hours so in the end I cancelled.
In answer to your other questions I use OE6 in Windows XP, and also Firefox on this site. I looked in the deleted box but the in box emails are not there, also looked in recycle bin - not there and also did a System Restore back to yesterday - still nothing. So I'm scared I'm doing more harm than good, my bruv says I need a complete system overhaul possibly with loading Windows back up again to start from scratch as it doesn't seem to have been doing updates, and has always been a bit dodgy.
I'm not clever enough to sort on my own, but that video was great, thanks. Will now leave it until my brother can visit as its only the incoming emails which have disappeared, (they are coming through from 2pm just a whole years disappeared) think its because it keeps saying they need to be compressed and I always hit "cancel" - so maybe, just maybe I hit ok when another folder was open and minimised - I know this can accidentally delete them. Ta muchly!

[SlackAlice]

It's a long time since I used OE for emails, but if I remember correctly if you have 'compressed' them by mistake then they should still be there. Scroll down from your inbox and look for an 'archive' folder.

[Wak]

I use OE and XP and the folders holding my .DBX files are stored in C:/My Documents/Outlook Express. Try there?
I always get mine compressed as it must save space and only takes seconds to do.