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Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / January 2004Old Database
About a month ago I was unable to launch Outlook Express. A message said: Unexpected end of file I found help at Microsoft Knowledge Base from the following articles: (compacting and rebuildind the database) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];248335 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];296844 Following these instruction the problem was resolved, however, it occured again. I repeated the steps. Now I am unable to view any old messages or my address book. I have found in the Identities folder: Old Database, Old Database Cache, Old Messages If I remove the word "old" from each of these and substitute these for the existing files, then launch Outlook, my messages and address book are now visible, however, I cannot read any of the messages or view folders. Can anyone tell me how to resolve this. thank you Mike L. > About a month ago I was unable to launch Outlook Express. A message > said: [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > thank you > Mike L. Try the complex rebuild process if you haven't already (assuming you are using OE 5.02 or later). If that doesn't work, I'd say that your data has been lost. Ricky > > About a month ago I was unable to launch Outlook Express. A message > > said: [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Ricky Thank You for taking the time to respond to my problem. If I follow your advice, should I rebuild with the existing: Database, Database Cache, and Messages files plus the old files OR rebuild using the Old Database, Old Database Cache, Old Messages and remove the word "old" from the files and move the current files out of the Identites folder?? I would assume to do this because the old folders contain all the messages and the address book. Would I be rebuilding the old database? Is there a way to retreive only the address book?? I also read way back from an older post taking the messages and moving them to the desktop. The message said: Instead, drag your messages out of the Inbox directly onto your Desktop (or other folder) to save them as .EML files, then drag those files into the corresponding Inbox of the new Identity. From the post: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=BBFA99FA.D4C4%25r ichard.grieve%40NOvirginSPAM.net&prev=/groups%3Fdq%3D%26num%3D25%26hl%3Den%26lr% 3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dmicrosoft.public.internet.outlookexpress.mac%26start%3 D125 Thank you again in advance Mike L. > Thank You for taking the time to respond to my problem. If I follow > your advice, should I rebuild with the existing: [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > "old" from the files and move the current files out of the Identites > folder?? The latter method is the one to go for. > Would I be rebuilding the old database? Yes. > Is there a way to retreive only the address book?? No. > I also read way back from an older post taking the messages and moving > them to the desktop. Yes, if you can get back into OE after a successful rebuild, then the messages can be backed up through this drag & drop method. Ricky > > Thank You for taking the time to respond to my problem. If I follow > > your advice, should I rebuild with the existing: [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Ricky OK Did the rebuild...did not work at first tried an experiment...moved the old messages and database folders in(removed the word old) kept the new cache folder...it worked...exchanged the new/old cache folders...still worked..I'm happy I guess the rebuild helped after all. Now...How can I add or merge the month of new messages to the old(retreived) messages many thanks in advance Mike L > > Thank You for taking the time to respond to my problem. If I follow > > your advice, should I rebuild with the existing: [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Ricky I Spoke too soon ...the rebuild did not work as well as I thought. mostly all of the old messages cannot be opened...a window opens with a message: The end of file was reached Back to square one >>> Thank You for taking the time to respond to my problem. If I follow >>> your advice, should I rebuild with the existing: [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Back to square one A pretty surefire sign that one or both of the Messages and Database files are damaged, or that you weren't using the right pairing of Messages and Database files when carrying out the compact/rebuild process. Either way, I don't see how you can get your mailbox content back. Ricky |
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