Emails Missing in Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 SP1 or SP2

With each new release of Outlook Express patches and service packs, the application and its mail folders are considered to be more safer. But .dbx file corruption is not an exception in any case. Outlook Express .dbx files are prone to host of corruption problems. The folders once corrupted should either be recreated or restored from the recent backup. In case when no suitable backup is present, you should opt for an efficient DBX Repair tool to recover corrupted .dbx files.

Consider a scenario when you use Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed on a Windows XP-based computer. You start Outlook Express and notice that all email items are not visible in respective folders. All email messages are missing.

Cause

The above problem results if Outlook Express .dbx file or contacts database is damaged due to compaction. The .dbx file can get corrupt out of these frequent reasons:

(1) You interrupt the compaction process.

(2) You start the .dbx file compaction process when Outlook Express is closed.

(3) The file size of DBX is quite large, generally more than 1 GB.

(4) You leave Outlook Express running for a long interval of time and don't exit it.

Solution

To prevent such DBX corruption from occurring, you should install the security update MS06-076. After you install the update, Outlook Express creates the .dbx file backup in Recycle Bin before compacting it. The file is stored as mail_folder_name.bak. Where, mail_folder_name is the name of folder that has been compacted. To restore the corrupted folder's contents, you can restore it from Recycle Bin

However, if you have deleted the .bak file or the folders have got corrupted since you didn't install the update, you need a complete backup to restore the lost emails. The backup can fail if is not updated or is corrupt too. In such situations, you require a comprehensive DBX Repair solution that can repair and restore corrupted .dbx files at a safe location.

DBX Repair software are highly competent products that can analyze a corrupted Outlook Express file safely and extract data from.

Outlook Express Recovery is an advanced mail recovery utility designed to repair corrupted DBX files created with Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x. It is a powerful, yet non-destructive DBX Repair Tool that uses effective scanning algorithms. It can also repair *.eml messages that can be directly opened and viewed in Outlook Express.