Become a and go ad-free!One common confusion for both Outlooks under Windows 2000 and Windows XP is that each Windows user account gets their own set of Outlook Express mail folders by default. So if you use multiple accounts in Windows, it’s possible that you’re simply logged into a different account, and looking at a different set of folders.Because, and each has some unique set of issues to look at.Outlook ExpressOutlook Express also has the concept of “Identities” which is another way to manage multiple users with separate email accounts without requiring different Windows accounts. Make sure you’re using the identity you think you are.Even if you’re not using multiple accounts or identities it’s a good idea to search your for additional “message stores”, the place where Outlook Express keeps your folders. Use Window’s “Search for Files or Folders” feature to look for “.dbx” files.
The directories in which you find those files are other message stores that Outlook Express has used. Knowing where they are you can now import their contents into your current mailbox if you wish.If you’re running an anti- product Microsoft Support has a Knowledgebase article which discusses an interaction with McAfee VirusScan that can cause the problem.Depending on your symptoms the KB article may also be helpful.Also, see below for some more things to look at that apply to both Outlook and Outlook Express.OutlookOutlook supports what are called “Profiles” which are roughly equivalent to Outlook Express’s “Identities”. In Outlook’s case they can be managed through the Windows Control Panel’s “Mail” options. Typically there’s a single default profile but you can also configure Outlook to ask which profile it should use each time it starts up. Make sure you’re using the profile you expect.Outlook includes a feature called “auto archive” which will automatically move mail items older than a certain amount to an archive folder. Select the Tools menu, Options, Other, AutoArchive and check the settings displayed. It is possible to configure auto-archive to move or delete items without prompting you, so double check the settings.
If it’s moving items to an archive folder this dialog will also show you where that folder is located.As with Outlook Express, it’s a good idea to scan your hard disk for additional message stores. Search for “.” and “.ost”.
These files (not directories) contain the email folders managed by outlook. You can simply use Outlook’s File menu, Open, Outlook Data File to see what they contain.Outlook includes support for Exchange Server. If you are using Exchange Server based email then your email is typically stored on the server and not on your local machine.
Be aware that rules and policies on the server could cause email to be archived or removed without notification. Check with your Exchange administrator to see if that might be the case.Both Outlook and Outlook ExpressAnother very easy trap to fall into that might cause messages “disappear” is to simply have an improper view applied. Both Outlook and Outlook Express have the ability to show only messages matching certain criteria. For example “show only unread messages” is a common setting; once you read the message it “disappears”.
Applying a different view that doesn’t restrict which messages are shown causes the message to reappear. Check the View menu in either application (and the Arrange By sub menu if present) to see what your current settings are. If they’re restrictive it’s possible your mail is still there, just not in view.If your email accounts are accounts rather than the currently more common, then your email is by default stored on the mail server and not your local machine. Much like Exchange Server, server-side policies could affect the contents of your mail folders.
Be sure to check with your mail administrator.I have experienced cases where poorly designed utilities can get confused if Outlook or Outlook Express are running at the time the backup is performed. The email programs keep their mail files open, preventing the backup programs from actually backing them up.
In the worst case scenario (which I experienced) this can cause the backup program to attempt to restore the files to an older previously backed up copy, resulting in disappearing email. The safest thing is to know when backups are scheduled to happen and ensure that Outlook and Outlook Express are both closed prior to that time.Finally, there is the possibility of corruption. Typically either of the Outlooks will complain if the email files become corrupt in some way. Outlook Express may try to recover but often requires that you simply rename the corrupt folder and allow Outlook Express to build a new one. Outlook comes with the “scanpst.exe” tool that will attempt to repair Outlook’s files (use Windows Find Files or Folders ability to locate it — various versions of Office install it in different locations). Compacting should be completely transparent.
It makes files smaller and potentially makes access of email a little faster. There is one dramatic exception. Moving Outlook Express folders from one machine to another isn't obvious. Moving Outlook Express folders involves finding them, copying them, and importing them. And then there's the address book. Outlook Error 0x800ccc0d is simply a failure to connect - that's in the error message. How to fix Outlook Error 0x800ccc0d involves a little investigation.
If you didn't change the folder rules, then who did? I'll show you how to fix this problem.Posted: March 28, 2004in:Shortlink:Tagged. New Here?Let me suggest my to get you started.Of course I strongly recommend you - there's a ton of information just waiting for you.Finally, if you just can't find what you're looking for,! Leo Who?I'm and I've been playing with computers since I took a required programming class in 1976. I spent over 18 years as a software engineer at Microsoft, and after 'retiring' in 2001 I started in 2003 as a place to help you find answers and become more confident using this amazing technology at our fingertips. Interesting, I have windows 98se on my computer in question.
Instead of my e-mails mysteriously disappearing from my inbox, I have deleted e-mails mysteriously re-appearing in my inbox. This just happened today for the first time in a year or so. Todays reappearing e-mails I deleted a day or two ago. Last year I had e-mails reappearing which I had deleted a month or two before. The date on them was from the time they had originally come in and I’m positive I deleted them not moved them because I clear out the outlook and check to make sure there is nothing in any of my outlook boxes. For the record, “Windows XP identity” is the wrong term, it’s a “Windows XP account” or user account.
It seems picky, I know, but using the correct terminology avoids a lot of misunderstanding when trying to diagnose or discuss problems and other computer behaviour.My recommendation is that you use Start-Search-For Files or Folders. And attempt to locate any files that end in “.dbx”. One set of those will be the email from your current account, and I expect you’ll find another set in a directory underneath “Documents and Settings” that has the name of that deleted account somewhere in its path.
Once you’ve located them, you should be able to use Outlook Express’s import functionality to import the email from those files into your own.Hope that helps. Here’s a bizzare one Recently I had my boyfriend clean up his outlook 2k so we wouldn’t have another episode requiring me to resort to using a hex program to destroy the.pst & then use the repair tool to get outlook to open (BTW – there is a patch for getting past the 2mg limit).So when he finished deleting, all of his files where there. He hit a different folder (maybe an internal folder) & thats when he saw his most important folder disappear (it was open, so seeing several customer names disappear made an impression on him).He didn’t mention the missing folder to me, & I spent some time cleaning up his hard drive because it was a bit sluggish. So, this is why I think that it was overwritten by compacting & defraging.I have tried everything I can think of to reclaim the folder.
I have looked in every possible folder & I have used several different programs to reclaim the lost data.Has anyone heard of folders disappearing for no apparent reason. & where would they go inside of outlook?I’ve also tried looking at his old archives & the info isn’t there.Thanks,. I’ve read all the comments in this thread, but still have a problem. 5 days ago had an error message (which I did not have time to read), and Outlook Express 6 crashed, as did the system.On reboot, all messages in inbox had disappeared (320Mb!). Subsequent messages are being stored.2 days later, the same thing happened with sent items.I have “view all selected”, and tried “copy of show all messages”, but no change.Checking the inbox.dbx file from the correct message store (checked by date), the 320Mb file is there, but loading it, I still just get the messages from the last 5 days – say 2Mb.I’m using Nortons, de-fragged, system check etc etc.I’m running under W98SE.Any advice would be most welcome (not experienced enough to use a HEX editor if that should be required!)regardsJim.
ATTENTION: FYI – Emails disappearing from Hotmail Inboxes (like all of them) upon login or upon refresh is NOT a problem with your browser, or Outlook or Outlook Express. If your emails were there an hour ago and currently have dissappeared (and you didn’t delete them) then it is a problem with Hotmail itself.
If your Emails have disappeared from the browser (IE,Netscape,FireFox, etc) view of your Hotmail account then gauranteed they have disappeared from your Outlook or Outlook Express clients as well.The reason they will have disappeared from Outlook/Outlook Express is because those Email clients are sync’d with the Hotmail servers. If you are logged into your Oulook/Outlook Express all day long, then your Inbox/Junk/Drafts/Sent Messages folders are continuously being sync’d with the Hotmail Servers. If Hotmail has a problem (database loss, server down, etc) and your Outlook/Express Hotmail folders are in the process of getting sync’d then you will most likely see all of your Inbox emails (and other saved emails) disappear.It does not matter if you have been logged in all day long, or are logging in for the first time that day – your Inbox messages will be gone if the Hotmail Servers or Databases are having this seemingly perpetual problem. This has happened in the past and it seems it is happening with more and more frequency in recent months.There is nothing you have done to cause this and there is nothing you can do to recover them on your own. But fear not, Hotmail will eventually get it corrected and suddenly all of your emails will return. Even a few new ones.Hotmail stores login information, email counters, address books, etc in a different databases then the actual emails themselves. Thus is why you will see your Inbox say you have (10) new messages yet when you go to your Inbox you don’t see the 10 new messages, nor do you see any of your other messages that were previously in your Inbox.
You must understand that the actual email Databases are HUGE, beyond your comprehension of physical data storage space. We are talking Pentabits of information spread across several dozen clusters of servers. When a cluster goes down, or a database gets corrupted or the server processor(s) gets bogged down.(or.or.or.orthe list can go on) – then temporarily, the databases that serve up/list your emails become unavailable and thus you see an EMPTY inbox folder.Currently, my personal hotmail account is empty, yet this morning before I left for work it had over 240 email messages. Sometime between 9am and 10:15am certain systems went down at Microsoft causing my emails to dissappear.
This is the 7th time this has happened in the last 3 weeks and probably the 25th time its happened in the last 3 years. But they always come back – highly incovnenient but there is little, well nothing, you can do about it. The best way to project yourself is to use Outlook/Outlook Express and create a folder outside of the Hotmail Folder section – then move your Hotmail Inbox Emails to that folder.
If you create the folder under the Hotmail Section then that means you are still storing your emails on the Hotmail Servers – you are not storing them locally. If you create the folder outside of the Hotmail subfolders, then you will be saving them locally. When trying to log onto my hotmail I receive the following message:What Can I Do!!???Account Temporarily UnavailableWe apologize, but your account is temporarily unavailable. This delay does not affect the entire site or result from any problem specific with your account however the server that holds your account information is temporarily unavailable. We do not expect this delay to last much longer, so please continue to check our site for your account status.We will do our best to make your account available as quickly as possible. We appreciate your support, and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. Geeezetoday is June 10th 2005I was checking my email on outlook express v6 this morning and all my emails were gone from my inboxthere were some left in my sent forlder from a certain date backmy email system seems to be working fine I have recieved mails since then and they are in my inboxWhat could have happened to my mail.I have made sure there were no rules and have done extensive searches in my hard disk for any trace of themnada.has anyone resolved this problem or have a clue as to what this is?
Please help, I am so worrie that some one hijaked them.Juan. I recently decided to ‘trial’ Peoplepc internet, and when I loaded the software from the trial disk it overrode my existing Outlook Express files and I’ve lost a years worth of emails/addresses, etc that I recieved through my Verizon account. I’ve looked at identities and accounts in the Outlook Express files and verizon seems to have disappeared. I just did a files search looking for.dbx files but found nothing. I’ve looked in the recycle bin and nothing Did I just not say yes at the right moment during downloading peoplepc. Or has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas where else to look?
Dear LeoI run OE6 on 98SE. I suddenly lost all my emails from all my folders. I also lost all the folders, other than the defaults, as well as all my message rules. My mail accounts are still there and OE seems to be now running normally given what I’ve lost.The dbx folders (including non-default folders I created) are still there in the Store Folder under the maintainance tab. But if I try to import them I get a message reading: “The specified message store could not be opened. It may be in use by Outlook Express.” and “No message could be found in this folder or another application is running that has the required files open. Please select another folder or try closing applications that may have files open.”I don’t have any other applications open which would obviously use email files.
I tried copying the dbx folders to another folder but had the same messages when I tried opening the files from that folder.I’ve tried all the View options mentioned in this thread without result.I used to run McAfee but haven’t for some time and I think that all parts have been removed – I understand that can sometimes cause problems. I now run AVG anti-virus and a Zone Alarm firewall.
I’d be extremely grateful for any help,Best WishesJohn. Something I have found helpful under Windows XP is to check the disk for errors. The OE Inbox seems particularly prone to getting hit by file inconsistencies, even under NTFS.To do this you need to open My Computer, right-click the C: disk, select Properties then the Tools tab and click on Check Now. Tick the option that says Automatically Fix File System Errors and then click Start. It will tell you that it cannot run and give you the option to run the check when the system next starts up. Click Yes, then shutdown/restart the computer.
During the startup it should run a disk check and tidy up any inconsistencies. Sorry this is so convoluted, but I have not been able to find a more direct way of doing this. OK I’ll try to give detail, even if it may just appear significant and be coincidental.The only different thing I did was do a scan with “spybot search and rescue” which I hadn’t done before on this hard drive (new as of about a couple of months) It found somethings for which deletion was recommended I complied.The next time I went to my outlook express (not immediately after) there was nothing in my inbox. But my delete-box and my sent-box were still complete, so I figured that it had just been my inbox. That was about a week ago.I have many other folders and went into one of them tonight and lo and behold, it was empty too!
I checked them all and found only 2 (of 22) of the additional folders and sub-folders still had their contents. Which is even stranger! Why were some spared???I’m miffed. Was it my doing? Yesterday my antivirus program (antivir) detected something TR/Java-ClassLdr.Cwhich I deleted but this was after the fact. Or was it?What d’ya think?ard.
Overnight, a lot (about one third) of my emails disappeared from my Inbox in Outlook Express. No rhyme or reason as far as what date (five from yesterday alone) and they are nowhere to be found. Some of them date back as far as 2003.
I had a tech guy here this morning who was flummoxed and rang another two who had never heard of it either. I’ve checked the event viewer to see if there was a problem, that’s all fine.
Nothing else touched in any of the other nine or ten folders I’ve got. The backup only went as far as Juneand of those I reimported, most say “Outlook Express encountered an unexpected problem while displaying this message. Check your computer for low memory or low disk space and try again.” As my memory and disk space is fineI’m at a loss. The whole folder is about 300mb, so falls within what’s acceptable in size.It’s not been archived, nor did the folder disappear just some 250 or so emails vanished. I’ve had pc’s for many years and always used OE – never had a problem like this. Any help as to what might have happened would really be appreciated!!CheersHeather.
The last time I used my email account was just before Christmas. Upon logging in today 12/02/07 I was greeted with: ‘Congratulations, your account has bee reserved for you’. I continued only to be directed to a new account. I need my old one. It got lots of stuff for my university course. I’ll die if I can’t get my old or recover the contents of my mailbox.I’ve read your answers but none exactly addressed my problem. I use the university’s network computers and I can log in from anywhere which means searching hard drives is out of the question.
I suppose things are saved on uni’s server? If so, how do I go about recovering my stuff?I’m sure I’ve been given a new account; what happened to the old one?. —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—–Hash: SHA1MOST free email providers will remove account after some period ofinactivity.If this is for your Hotmail account, then you want this article:If this is some kind of email account provided by the university, thenyou need to contact the university’s IT department, or whereever you gotthe account from.Leo—–BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE—–Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32)iD8DBQFF0LRaCMEe9B/8oqERAuVGAJ96UQBPV6qchT7csnQeG6ZLSFUgGQCeOfSFuX/dBJJ+xqENMMOXd7EMIJ4patl—–END PGP SIGNATURE—–. Hi Leo,I have a problem to the one that Kathleen had.I am unable to see any mails in my inbox from Novembr 26,2006 to April 17, 2007.Today, I had opened my outlook expressand could see the indicator of the unread mails increasing in my inbox.As I clicked on the ‘view mails’link.all mails in my inbox from the last 5 months just vanished.I continue to get my mails and can see all mails before and after the above mentioned dates.Any suggestion to recover my mails?I have tried importing it from ‘inbox.dbx’. But I haven’t got the missing emails.All my views etc are correctly enabled.ThanksSavio.
Read the piece at the top (very informative) but still have almost exactly the same specific prob as immediately above. After on brief problems today displaying content of e-mails, suddenly there’s no e-mails between May of last year and today at all, though plenty before that still left.
I DID have a ton in the Inbox and had started to weed out all the useless e-mails recently. I do remember that this happened on an old desktop years ago, but not sure how I got them back. I’m currently running Windows XP / Outlook express. ANY and ALL assist gratefully received.
Further to my e-mail earlier this evening and combining the info in the original post at the top with info from some colleagues, I managed to restore everything. I located the dbx folders (by using the normal search facility with ‘advanced’ to make sure I saw the ‘hidden’ files). Sure enough there had been a new file created called Inbox.bak (the missing e-mail section created during a spontaneous compacting). To get the missing e-mails baack, I simply renamed the Inbox.bak file as Inbox.dbx AFTER renaming the ‘current’/new Inbox.dbx as something else (effectively just swapping the two files back). Hope that info helps anyone findign this.
Hi I had the same problem with outlook express and used Mike’s solution above which worked. Thanks very much. It seems that outlook express has a maximum storage limit and then starts a new folder. The old folder is still in the hidden files. So I just renamed as in Mike’s solution. I have an older version of outlook express so the folders were just called Inbox and Inbox (1). I had to rename Inbox as Inbox (1) having changed the name of Inbox (1) first of all so It would not delete any of the files.
Star wars the clone wars republic heroes pc download. I then set to work to delete much of my old Inbox should the maximum be reached again. OK, i found my inbox.dbx file, its 347767k and the only one on my c:, no other inbox anywhere, even when serached for as inbox.But suddenly my inbox only shows the most recent 39 emails!I tryed importing the inbox.bdx into another computers outlook express folder and it only imported 39 messages for this 347767k file!Is there some way to read all the messages that are in this.dbx file again, i have emails for over 2 years in there, some email addresses i can’t get anymore are in this folder.I tryes all the stuff in the comments above and nothing has worked for me.HELP LEO!thanks. Many thanks to the “Ask-Leo” website and John Mosby’s info concerning restoring Outlook Express e-mail messages.
I thought I’d lost a year’s worth of saved e-mail’s. I patiently used his directions, and after locating the.bak and.dbx, using ‘search files’, with the advanced option of finding ‘hidden files’, was able to find and restore my Inbox and messages. I think I’ll save the older messages to a back-up file now, or never use ‘compact messages’ again!
The information provided here was much easier to find and follow than the Microsoft support website. Again, many thanks. Today I decided that I would use Outlook on my local computer to access my Outlook account from work.
I am running Outlook 2003 on XP at home and we are running Exchange Server 2003 at work. I set up a new email account and put in the server information and my account info. Everything seemed to be working fine until I noticed that email was appearing on my home computer, but disappearing from my work computer. It only seemed to have happened to my “inbox” and not the other folders. The rest of the folders are duplicated on both machines as I intended. Does anyone have any clues as to how this happened and how I can recover my inbox at work.Thanks,Swish. I have lost part of my inbox messages.
Everything from 3/26/07 to this morning 1/8/08, 7:21 am. OE was open but gave an error when I tried to “send/receive”. So, I closed the program to start fresh and got the “compact to save space” message and I unfortunately said ok to that. When I reopened OE I was missing the large block of messages. I have searched and found the.dbx files and location for the stored messages, etc. I have been unable import any new messages by renaming files etc.
I also searched for inbox.bak files and didn’t find any. I also tried restoring my system to yesterday. Are there any other suggestions??
Thank you very much. Hi Leo,I’ve read through every comment on this article, and none of them have proven useful to my situation.This morning I restarted my computer when it froze during the download of an email in Microsoft Outlook Express 6.
When the restart was completed, I opened Outlook Express to find that none of my existing subfolders in my inbox were there, and I have none of my received emails at all. All of the deleted, sent, and draft messages are here, but nothing else.I am the only user of my computer, and therefore the only identity in Outlook Express is my own. I ran the “search” application for any.dbx file extensions in the computer, and nothing was found.Not to sound whiny, but all of the information I’ve received about school trips I’ve been planning to Europe is missing, as are all scholarship and university information I’ve kept for my students to access. Close to 1’000 other emails were deleted as well, though those emails were of slightly less importance.If there is any way to retrieve these lost emails, I am certainly eager to try it.Thank you,Jessica.
Hello Leo, Before I begin let me say that I am a layman but a great robot in that I am able to follow directions very well, with that said, yesterday morning I was cleaning out spam and junk mail from all my email addresses in my Outlook 2003. While I was doing it somehow I must have deleted the stuff in my Outlook AOL inbox, as well as the AOL inbox online. There are some vitally important emails that I haven’t answered in there yet. And before you ask I pretty much purged my deleted messages. I think it’s still on the hard drive somewhere.
I checked the recycle bin and no luck. I went on line to AOL mail, and tried to undelete recently deleted, no luck. So far I can’t find it. How can one recover this file/folder? What about a restore point hiding somewhere in my computer.I have not yet rebooted since this happened, ironically I begin my day by rebooting to help speed up my turtle of a computer.
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I also have not purged anything since this incident. Our inbox contents also disappeared (Outlook/ Vista) and I found another ‘bar’ underneath the standard column headings which said:Contents none (26 items)I tried to highlight this to copy it and then a +/- sign appeared and so did the contents of the mailbox. I could then click the +/- sign to make the contents appear and disappear at will. Now I’ve left the mailbox alone for 10 minutes or so and the ‘Contents’ bar has totally disappeared.No idea why it appeared in the first place and no idea why it disappeared.
But this may help someone else with lost mailbox contents.Pamela. I have a similar problem with messages in my inbox disappearing. I use Windows Mail and have Windows Vista. I have had this computer for over a year, but this problem started about 3 months ago. For example, I will get 10 new emails, I open them all, but a few of them I want to keep and reply to, but first I needed to look at some emails in another folder. If I click on any other folder or close my email, when I return to my inbox to reply, all of the emails are gone.
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I have no idea where they went. However if I right click on the inbox and then click on properties, it tells me that there are 337 emails in my inbox, but in my inbox there is NONE, ZERO, NADA, so what is going on?
It is like when my emails disappear they go into another inbox and have just been accumulating, because I can’t get to this other inbox. I know this sounds strange, but it is a fact and is EXTREMELY ANNOYING. I have had several what I consider computer people and they couldn’t figure it out either. Can you or anyone help me?Thanks,Rebecca Roberts.
Outlook Express inbox gradually displayed fewer messages. Each time I looked there were fewer – down to 47 then 38, 32, 21. 3, 2, 1 then none.They disappeared in date order – towards the end I could only see emails received last September.But the files are still there because when I use the Outlook Express Search program and type in the sender and email title then it finds it and displays it.I ran a Norton full scan that took more than four hours but after removing six cookies it found no threats.I need help herePeter Chapman.
When I installed outlook express using a microsoft exchange account, express pulled all of the e-mails in my exchange inbox and they disappeared from my outlook account which I have set up on another computer. I found where the emails were stored by express and the.dbx file (which I copied, but the outlook computer does not see because it is looking for.iaf files) and was able to export them manually, but I can’t import them manually as emails.
They become attachments. I don’t have outlook installed on the same computer that I am using for outlook express, so I could not use the export function to move the emails back to the exchange server.
Is there something else I can do to fix this problem? I need to have the emails in my outlook account. If there is a way to save the.dbx or move it to an outlook folder, instructions would be greatly appreciated. I have compacted my email in the past & lost months of important stuff so I know always to cancel when asked to compact but today outlook express was acting strange way slow & then I got multiples of the same email.
And a message on some things that the message has not been downloaded from outlook express so I clicked out of it all together thinking it needed a time out & when I opened it again I lost over 1500 emails that were way importantall of my Leo newsletters & other way important things too. Alot of things I meant to get back to. My brother set up my email & I have Yahoo plus which I pay for yearly for it to come through Outlook Express from what I have read I guess Yahoo may be the problem too.I am ready to move. Guess I will never get them back so I just needed to vent a bit with people that know this feeling of helplessness. Hello Leo, Last week the past 4 months of emails disappeared from my Outlook Express Inbox other email folders not affected. The messages are still on my ISP’s webmail page but won’t download to my pc Inbox – although the message bottom right of the screen says they’re downloading and the machine makes the “new mail” sound at frequent intervals. Have found some.dbx files on my hard drive but unable to import them to OE as the “import” function seems to be for when you want to transfer emails from a different email client.
My ISP says the messages should download and a corrupt email is the problem but, if so, it must be one of the emails that’s disappeared. I don’t use McAfee.
What if I download another copy of Outlook Express? Will I lose the emails that I still have? Oh the complexity is giving me a headache!. Thursday evening when closing down I was offered the (6 monthly?) compact e-mail messages which I have used before. I run Outlook Express.
I no longer use McAfee, just Mircosoft Security Essentials. All seemed to go fine, I carried on locking up my premises, came back and computer had shut down normally. In the morning I find I have lost all my current inbox messages but have those from and right back to 2008.
Searched for.dbx files but cannot locate any. Can you help please?Kind regards. Dear Leo, I would very much appreciate your insight.
I am an experienced user but I cannot understand this. On opening outlook 2013 on Windows 7 home computer, I find that all emails from 13/12/14 until 8/4/15 (UK dates) have gone, in every folder. It’s like a chunk of my life has been removed. 116 days of sent, received, filed in folders, deleted emails have gone.
No folder or archive contains any email in those dates. I download my emails from my BT mail service, so I’m not using exchange or the like. I’ve checked filters etc., run repair, which may or may not have been a good thing, but I made a back up.pst. Would you have any thoughts you could share, I’ve never seen anything like it. I really didn’t do anything that I do not do regularly: I pulled a message from my Outlook.com In box to a folder.
Suddenly all messages safe for ten of them were invisible. I say invisible because (1) when I search for one by name of sender or so, they will appear (I cannot, however, now pull them to another folder), and (2) the “important” messages (the ones with that little red flag) are all there. So what happened – the “Deleted” folder is not a solution (and seemingly not the problem either)??Baffled, and hoping for help!Volker.
Sounds like the emails from your Primary folder have been deleted or moved. Use your computer and try looking in spam and trash to see if the emails are there. There is also the possibility that they were moved into a folder in some way.
A real easy way to find things would be to remember something that has been sent to you recently and do a search. Gmail has the best search function and I use it all the time to find things.The reason you saw everything on your phone, and then it disappeared, is because your phone is using IMAP so it opened up, and then synced with the server. 29 November 2017I am not very computer literate, but I use Microsoft Outlook 2010 every day to send and receive messages and attend web-casts. I have no idea what happened but I lost all the contents of my Outlook Folders: inbox, sent items, deleted items, junk email and most importantly my address book contents.
Someone tried to help and I retrieved some of the contents, but not all. It seems as everything has gone haywire! Some functions were also lost for instance I cannot change the size of the font when I send an email. I also think the ribbon might have changed. Is it possible to restore all that i have lost and what are the steps to follow. I have searched on the Internet for help for hours! I really hope you can help me with some easy steps.
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As we continue to address the numerous issues related to Windows 10 on our portal, one cannot help but wonder how Microsoft managed to get so many bugs in a single upgrade. While some users have complained about the missing audio services after their upgrade, there have been complaints where users haven't able to detect the taskbar. This 'taskbar disappeared' error has been questioned on my forums. While Microsoft has promised updates in order to resolve the issue, users are looking for options that can remove the 'taskbar disappeared' error.
In the given article, we shall look for methods to address the 'taskbar disappeared' error.How to Fix Taskbar Disappeared Error in Windows 10.Let us now address the other reasons that might be causing the 'taskbar disappeared' error in Windows 10.1. Unhide the Taskbar:It is possible for your taskbar to be hidden. However, once you move your mouse to the bottom of the screen, you can expect it to show up.
If there is some unforeseen error, you are required to turn off the auto-hide and get rid of the 'taskbar disappeared' error.Simply right-click on the Taskbar would be one's obvious choice, but in this scenario, you would have to access the Control Panel, and click on 'taskbar and Navigation'. This helps you view the taskbar properties dialog box and here, you are required to uncheck the '˜Auto-hide the taskbar' box.Often, there are instances when the auto-hide on the left or right of the screen and is missed by the user. Before undertaking the troubleshooting techniques, users should check for that as well.2. Changing the display settings:For the ones who regularly connect their computer to external display options like an LED TV or docks, the issue of 'taskbar disappeared' could be arising because of that. To eliminate the error, all you have to do is press the combination of Windows key+ P or move to the control panel, choose '˜Display' and finish by clicking on '˜Adjust'.For the users who have been using Windows 10 after an upgrade, the resolution and display settings and quite the same with the same options popping out from the right side of the screen. If you are using Windows 10, you might only be interested in '˜PC screen' option.
If the 'taskbar disappeared' option was related to this issue, the above procedure ought to solve it.3. Restarting the Explorer:If nothing else works for you, this procedure should do the trick. It is important to note that Explorer.exe is a process that is responsible for controlling the desktop and taskbar. It's not only the taskbar that is missing, but also the icons that often go missing.Since both of them depend upon explorer.exe, they both are not found at the same time due to the error. You now have to open you 'task manager' in Windows, and type '˜exploer.exe' and then press Enter.
The explorer process would be restarted, and this will let you have your taskbar back. For the ones who are seeing a Windows explorer popup, it merely signifies that the explorer.exe process was already running in the background.Users don't have to feel alarmed by the consistent issues they have been facing with Windows 10. As a new Operating System, it is bound to have its own issues which can be resolved with help from Microsoft which has been striving to enhance the user experience.There were also reports during the Windows 10 Technical Preview build of static and some other minor issues causing problem with the sound driver and even the HDMI ports. While users tried to solve the issue of no sound on computer by using multiple third-party applications, regular updates were released in order for the issue to be resolved.Confusing between Tablet mode and Desktop mode:One of the many reasons for you to witness 'taskbar disappeared' error is that you haven't yet figured the difference between the tablet mode from Windows 8 and desktop mode in Windows 10. This section helps you understand the difference.One can be optimistic that Microsoft would soon release a version that would address the issues in Windows 10 and the error of 'taskbar disappeared' won't occur anymore.
The system switches into the tablet mode itself, leaving the users confused as they are unable to access their desktop or taskbar with all the icons missing. The only resort left in such a situation is to restart the device in the hope of overcoming the 'taskbar disappeared' error.Therefore, if you ever face the situation where your desktop or entire taskbar goes missing, thus popping up the 'taskbar disappeared' error, there won't be any reason for you to panic. Simply disable the tablet mode using the above instructions.For the ones who have resolved the 'taskbar disappeared' error using the above techniques, we advise you to go through other articles on the portal that discuss the numerous troubleshooting techniques in Windows 10. With all its upgrades and faster boot time, Windows has indeed changed the way we saw Operating Systems.
Don't let yourself be confused by the tablet and desktop mode, and find a solution to your 'taskbar disappeared' error from the given article.
Hey all,I do some IT work on the side for a local nonprofit.Yesterday, I got a call from one of the employees stating that her user account had disappeared. They did a restart of the computer (Windows 10) and when it came back up, only the administrator account remained.Yesterday evening I stopped in and sure enough, her local account was 100% gone. So, I created a new local account for her and went on my merry way. The c:users path was still there of course, so I managed to transfer her data over to the new account.Here's where the details get a little. Coincidentally, she said there was a guy at their office around the same time from their security company who was going to install some software, got on her computer and needed to map a network drive to their software server.
Couldn't figure out why he couldn't map it, so he rebooted the computer, and when he did, the account, ta-da! Was gone.Never, ever in my IT career have I seen a user account 'magically disappear' from a computer. My guess is that this guy deleted the account by accident, then hightailed it out of there once he realized he big time F'd up. Then again - how do you possibly delete the account that was currently logged in.? He was logged in under her account the entire time so I'm not so sure about that.
Have you ever seen anything wonky like this on Windows 10? I've seen a handful of issues where people can't sign in to their MS accounts on Windows 10, but nothing like a local account just disappearing.
I've scoured Google and I can't find a single thing. I think I'm confused as they are.
Hi Jack,I ran into this same problem some years ago. The reason why it appears intermittent should because of the random 90 minute offset of the GPO refresh. There is a Restricted Group Policy that I used. Works well with one problem. Below is one of the best explanations I have seen for this.Phase1'.securing the local Administrators group is to ensure that the user no longer has membership in the group'Phase 2'.securing the local Administrators group is to ensure that the Domain Admins global group and the local Administrator account are both added to the local Administrators group in every desktop.' 'Many have attempted this by using the Restricted Groups policy that has been in Windows Active Directory Group Policy from the onset. The problem with this solution is that the Restricted Groups policy is a “ delete and replace” policy, not an “append” policy.
Thus, when you configure a policy to perform this task, you will wipe out the contents of the local Administrators group, replacing it with only these new accounts.' - fromThis could be the source of your problem as it was mine because I originally thought it would append accounts.
After going through what you went through and a bit of troubleshooting, I knew it was the culprit.This article also explains the use of the Local Users and Groups policy which gives you more flexibility than the Restricted Groups policy. Should solve both phases in one place.Hopefully this info will shed some light on your situation and give you the desired results. Please do let us know. I have seen user accounts getting botched up in Windows 7 but since we are in a Domain it just creates a new local profile. When it does this, you will see 2 profiles in the users folder (typically 1 named and another one named.). Since we are giving the technician the benefit of the doubt, it is very possible that the software he was installing somehow corrupted the user profile.
This would explain how the files still exist in the users folder when the account is gone. Does this nonprofit have a domain? Oddly enough I had something similar just yesterday. Domain users had been added to the computer as local admins, as is our standard.
We shipped the machine out to one of our satellite offices that is not on our MPLS, so they were trying to get logged in with the VPN before login. There's a captive portal on their internet, though, so I had to give the guy the password to the local admin account so he could connect to WiFi (the guy is a member of IT staff, not just a random user, before anyone asks). We jump on a screen share and the domain users don't even show up in the list of users whose accounts had been added to the domain. But as soon as we connected the VPN, they appeared right where I had put them before I shipped the machine out.All of that to say, if there's a domain in play, ensure the machine is on the right network to communicate back to the DC. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself but apparently this has the potential to cause an account to disappear. Carl Holzhauer wrote:Yes, I've had that happen about 5 times here. But, it's always been related to an unclean shutdown; half the times it was tied to a power loss, the other times it was tied to a user resetting their computer when it was doing updates.I could see the files with something like 'GetDataBackForNTFS' but when I restored them, they were empty.The users in question did not have local admin rights.Carl, was it always the logged in account that disappeared after the unclean shutdown?
Or a random account? Un4givn85 wrote:Was the user a local admin?It is, for some stupid reason, possible to delete the currently logged in account via Computer Management.Then once the account is logged off or the computer restarted, the account is gone.Exactly this - I've seen it as well.As another possible avenue, any chance he was having trouble while logged in via her account and either 'broke' something (or simply thought he did anyway) and did the 'ol 'System recovery but keep my files' option? If he went back to a date pre-her account setup it would've still kept the files local for you to copy to her rebuilt login that you mentioned.(I admit freely I'm reaching on the 2nd possibility, but MS, Windows - and especially W10, has plenty of weird shit happen on occasion that skirts out over the line of 'yeah, that shouldn't've happened' with very little info as to why or HOW it happened. Just a thought though.). On a domain computer, I have seen Windows 10 'loose' track of a domain user login account and setup a temporary profile and give the warning that it is temporary.
All I had to do was log off and then back on and Windows 10 'found' the account again.This has happened several times on different computers and accounts. If the C:users%username% folder was still in tact, could this have been what happened?If someone deleted the user profile in the Advance System Settings, usually it deletes the user folder too. Hey everyone, thanks a lot for the great replies!Sorry, I should have mentioned to start off, this isn't a domain environment. All of the users log on locally.The standard config for these computers is: I create a local administrator account and also create an account for the user w/administrator rights.And yes, just to clarify, that user account was totally gone. It wasn't under user accounts under control panel, no temp account, no nothing. The administrator account I deployed as part of the image was the only one left.
Luckily she didn't have much of anything on the desktop so I just transferred it over from her original user folder (which still existed) and the rest she had on her data drive.When I stop by over the weekend, I'll check to see if anything strange looks like it went down such as a system restore.Edited Mar 29, 2018 at 13:30 UTC.
Sometimes it seems that Outlook is automatically deleting old messages or messages you want can’t be found – where could they be?This is an occasional question and hard to answer. Let’s look at some of the possibilities for missing messages, starting with the most common problem we see. Online Spam FiltersThese days it’s more likely that the ‘cloud’ or online spam filter at your mail host has stopped an incoming message before it reaches Outlook.Most mail hosts have a spam filter which checks email before it gets to your online Inbox.
‘Spam’ messages are usually deleted with no notice to you. Sometimes the ‘spam’ is moved to an online ‘Junk Email’ folder (Gmail has a ‘Spam’ folder that you can check) but it’s more common for the presumed spam emails to be deleted without a trace.These online filters don’t have the ‘Safe Senders’ and ‘Safe Recipients’ options available in Outlook’s spam filter.All you can do is ask the sender to try again, preferably with a CC to an alternative mail account you control.
Then you can check if the message arrives in both Inboxes or just one. Junk EmailThe Outlook Junk Email filter isn’t perfect; no spam filter is perfect.
They will let through unwanted messages and, crucially, block messages that you want to get.Check the Outlook Junk Email folder to see if the missing message/s have been shunted directly there. As already noted, it’s more likely that presumed ‘spam’ RulesCheck your mail rules at Home Move Rules. Is it possible the missing messages have been moved unexpectedly by an Outlook Rule? Deleted ItemsDon’t think it can’t happen to you. Check your Deleted Items folder for the missing message. It’s really easy to hit ‘DEL’ on a message by accident. AutoArchiveAutoArchive is an Outlook feature we’ve never recommended and complaints about missing messages is just one reason.Microsoft added AutoArchive to Outlook back when the software and computers had trouble handling large mailboxes.
Redmond’s ‘solution’ was to move old messages to a separate ‘Archive’ which reduced the support calls to Microsoft but otherwise didn’t help customers. The older messages are moved to a separate Outlook store (PST/OST). It’s easy to forget that some messages are ‘archived’.If looking for messages, remember to check the archive. Even better, close AutoArchive and move those messages back to their original folders.
Modern Outlook can easily handle large PST/OST. Exchange ServerKeep in mind that recent versions of Outlook default to for an option to keep only recent messages on the computer. Older messages are kept on the Exchange Server but not your computer.There are options from as little as 3 days up to ‘All’ or keeping a copy of everything offline.The default is NOT ‘All’ so it’s quite possible that your older messages are only saved on the server.The low options are there for limited storage devices like Surface or tablets. If your computer has the disk space, we suggest sliding to the extreme right for the ‘All’ option. That lets you quickly access all your messages etc even on a slower Internet link, or no connection at all.
POP emailAnother possibility for missing messages is a POP email setting in Outlook. Normally, Outlook will grab new messages from the online POP mail store and delete that online copy of the message. That’s because, traditionally, POP accounts had very small storage and the space was needed for future incoming messages.However, there’s an option to keep the online messages there after copying to Outlook. Messages are kept online for ‘n’ days then automatically deleted.Outlook 2016 defaults to keeping messages online for 14 days.That setting should not effect Outlook because it keeps all the incoming messages. However, if you’re connecting to the same online mail store from another device, it may seem that older messages are disappearing.