Outlook Express Mail file broken

TheQL · #1 February 2nd, 2005, 03:22 AM

Hi,

I have problem with one of my users. He insisted on using his Outlook Express after we migrated to OS X and now his mail datafile exceeded 1.4GB, which for some reason caused OE to crash at startup. It says (translated it form german to english) "End of File reached. Exiting". Something like that. Moving the datafile to another place lets OE open normally, with all contact data etc., but the mails are gone.

I tried to import his old mail into Entourage and Thunderbird, didn't work. Entourage imported all the contact data, but no mail, no error report.

Is there a Mac Tool to fix OE data files? I'm finding tons of software for OE for Windows to do that, but none for the Mac. Any other ideas? Help is highly appreciated.

Tnx!

**Cheryl** · #2 February 3rd, 2005, 10:12 PM

What OS is that data file sitting on?

TheQL · #3 February 8th, 2005, 06:40 AM

Well, it sits in the Classic Environment. So it's Mac

Found lots of tools for Windows, which don't help.

TheQL · #4 February 10th, 2005, 08:56 AM

Nobody?

Any idea if Emailchemy http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/ might help? It's more a converter than a fix tool, but who knows?

**Cheryl** · #5 February 10th, 2005, 08:33 PM

It is obvious that none of us have had this kind of problem. Reading over Emailchemy, It looks like it will do the job for you.

You could first start up Classic and open Outlook. Then go through all those emails and trash the ones that is really not needed. Or save as text the really old ones, then delete them. You should be able to move them then.

TheQL · #6 February 11th, 2005, 06:40 AM

Sure the idea crossed my mind nobody ever had this problem, but who knows, maybe the one with the solution just overlooked this thread

Well, I'm not as confident as you are with Emailchemy, since Outlook does not start with the old data file, it just aborts with an error.

Anyway, I might try it and tnx for your opinion.

lilly333 · #7 July 19th, 2008, 01:58 PM

Hi,

did you find an answer? I'm desperately looking for it myself. I'm looking to get som old emails from my ibook which I haven't used in 2 years, since I bought a MacBook Pro. And now it turns out the files are corrupt. And old back-up files don't work either. Anybody any ideas? Your help is much appreciated. Thanx, Lilly

TheQL · #8 July 19th, 2008, 07:31 PM

Sorry, can't remember... Guess no. But as OE on the PC has the same problem, there might be more tools to help. If you had a Windows PC to try around with your data file.