Moved .dbx and .bak files in documents and now OE is all messed up!

[Brian and Leah Del Signore]

In an effort to better organize our Documents folder, I moved all the .dbx
and .bak documents that I could find into a folder for just them. (They had
appeared among our documents after we had our hard drive worked on.) Of
course, I know now that was a stupid thing to do. I don't know how OE
works.

We had messages in folders and mail rules operating. We had lots of emails
in various folders. Now, the folders and messages are gone. There are some
there, but they appear to be my daughter's messages.

After making these moves, I probably further complicated matters by trying
to move the .dbx documents back.

I would really like to get things back to normal. My husband may be able to
solve this problem, but if I can get information for him (or even do it
myself), it would be helpful.

I didn't any of these files (I did do that six months ago and we lost those
messages. You would think I learned my lesson, but I guess just enough time
had passed for me to lose my fear.) I am really hoping they are still
there!

I ran SpyBot Search and Destroy a few days ago and I think we could do a
system restore with that, but we'd miss some stuff.

In any case: Is this something we can tackle ourselves? Should we hire
someone? Is there a book that would help?

Thanks,

Leah

 

[Gordon]

In an effort to better organize our Documents folder, I moved all the .dbx
and .bak documents that I could find into a folder for just them. (They
had appeared among our documents after we had our hard drive worked on.)
Of course, I know now that was a stupid thing to do. I don't know how OE
works.

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Good luck!

 

[Brian and Leah Del Signore]

Thank you, Gordon.