If you reinstalled Windows 98 in the normal way, all of your previous files are
gone from the hard drive! You can only restore them if you had made a backup of
them somewhere else. OE does not backup automatically nor is there a built-in
manual backup routine except for its Export feature
Note: This newsgroup specializes in MS Outlook 97,98,2000,2002, and 2003.
You will be better served by posting your OE questions to a more relevant
newsgroup, such as this one:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
...or access it via the web-based equivalent.
Supplemental info:
Differences Between Outlook and Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;257824
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Hope this helps,
Newt
| Will Outlook Express 6 backup automatically for me? I don't perform backup.
| I have search for .dbx files for all harddrive, e:\email folder is the only
| place where I can find *.dbx files, which usually contain over 100MB email,
| but now this folder only contains a few KB. Do you have any suggestion?
| HELP SOS
| Thank you for your suggestion
| Eric
|
| "William Lefkovics [MVP]" wrote:
|
| > Restore from backup? Like you would when your hard drive crashes.
| >
| > You could search your workstation for .dbx files, which are OE's messages
| > stores.
| >
| > (the outlook express newsgroup is microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general)
| >
| >
| > | > >I am using Outlook Express 6 for Window 98, and I use to save all email on
| > > e:\email directory. Once I reinstall window 98, and update IE6, then I try
| > > to
| > > change the directory for email folder. It requests something, and I
| > > accidently click the yes button, then all my email records are gone. Does
| > > anyone know on how to restore those past email records.
| >
| > > Thank you in advance
| > > Eric
| >
