You can never have enough backup copies of your important mail files. Outlook Express lacks a backup feature, but backing up your mail data is still easy. In addition to the manual procedure described below, you can also automate the backup process.
How to Restore Outlook Express BAK Files. Close Outlook Express. Double- click on the Recycle Bin to open it. Look for the Outlook Express BAK files that you want to restore.
Right- click on each BAK file and choose . Check whether there are DBX files that have the same folder name as the BAK files you have restored. An example would be inbox. Move the DBX folders with same names as the BAK files to another folder. You can create a temporary folder. Right- click on each BAK file. Repeat for all the BAK files you restored.
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Launch Outlook Express. Your mail folders should now be restored. If so, you can delete the DBX files you moved to another folder.
That feature only works if 'compact messages in the background' is enabled (as it is by default). That feature however is. To repair the Outbox, close Outlook Express and delete 'Outbox.dbx' in your store folder. A new Outbox will be created automatically. After you install this update, the counter in Outlook Express is reset when you compact your mail folders manually. Mail folders will not be compacted automatically until Outlook Express has been closed 100 times. If you have many e-mail items, regularly. If your Microsoft Outlook Data File (.pst and.ost) won’t open or you suspect that the data file is damaged, use the Inbox Repair tool (Scanpst.exe) to diagnose and repair errors in the file. The Inbox Repair tool checks the Outlook Data Files on your computer to see if they're in good shape.