Outlook and OE mail storage and loss potential

Microsoft Outlook Express stores e-mail messages in folders known as DBX files. When a Microsoft Outlook message is accidentally deleted or simply goes missing due to file corruption and damage as caused by viruses and other malware it can be searched for and found using a basic Outlook Express recovery tool. These are especially helpful when one accidentally deletes the sent files or stored files folder from Outlook Express. The data recovery programs can scan one’s entire hard drive and locate any recently deleted files within an existing folder structure and present that structure for complete recovery.

Microsoft Outlook the larger big brother application of Outlook Express stores messages quite differently. Outlook stores all messages and options for those messages in one large database known as a PST file. Outlook recovery therefore requires us to either rebuild the access structure of the PST file so as to enable inbox operation or to at the very least give us the ability to view stored messages within the PST database. Usually when we have lost an important e-mail message our primary objective is to simply see and copy the text of that message to a new location. The Microsoft Outlook viewer option available on many PST repair programs allows us to do exactly that.

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