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What happens when the Outlook inbox storage capacity is exceeded

keith — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:53:57 +0000

It is somewhat amazing that an entire sector of the software industry has developed around the need to repair Microsoft Outlook inboxes and recover Outlook emails. The need to recover Outlook settings and messages is not something new. Actually from the inception of Outlook Windows PC users have been plagued with an assortment of problems. The foremost of these is that the Microsoft Outlook inbox is limited in size. Some versions allow only 2 GB of storage.

Once the storage limit is exceeded the result is tantamount to placing 3 gallons of water in a 2 gallon bucket. In cases involving usage of Microsoft Outlook the analogy continues that 1 gallon of messages spills over. Other problems inherent in Microsoft Outlook requiring the need for specialized Outlook data recovery programs are susceptibility to virus attack and attachment of data to antivirus programs resulting in corrupted files.

Recovering DBX email file information

keith — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:46:38 +0000

Outlook Express is the free email application that comes bundled with Microsoft Windows. It is an extremely simple to use program that allows one an effective liaison between the local storage available on their computer’s hard drive and the Internet at large. Unlike the larger more sophisticated Microsoft Outlook program that stores messages in one large database type file, Outlook Express stores messages and custom settings in individual files bearing the DBX extension. These are essentially text files and as such can require a great deal of space for storage.

It is often necessary to purchase a program built to recover Outlook Express files as this free e-mail client is prone to data corruption. The process to recover DBX file information is much like that required for any data recovery. You will need a third party data recovery program that specifically supports Microsoft Outlook Express recovery. You can find this type of program as well as free information on Outlook Express email recovery at Remo Software.

Practical deleted Outlook email recovery

keith — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:31:28 +0000

People write to me all the time asking how they can recover deleted emails. To be honest, sometimes their letters are almost comical in that they ask me how to rescue an email deleted months or years ago on a web based e-mail service. Recovering lost or deleted emails that were sent or received on web based email is extraordinarily difficult if not attempted within one week of the data being lost. Recovery of these mails after that length of time is completely impossible.

When one uses a localized email client such as Microsoft Outlook the difficulty involved in attempting to recover deleted mails is much less. Microsoft Outlook stores all of its data in what is known as a PST file. Depending on the version age of your Microsoft Outlook application you may either have just one of these PST files or several. When an email is lost on a local Microsoft Outlook client it is almost always due to PST file corruption. This can be remedied by using a powerful Microsoft Outlook PST repair program.