Thank you for your help. I was able to find and read most of the messages by
searching on *.eml. I had earlier retrieved some messages by restoring from
a back-up disk. However, that wiped out the recent messages received and
answered between the back-up period. Your solution allowed me to get at most
of these messages. I still can't open some of them. Anti-virus is off.
Windows Mail is closed, but I get a message that says cannot open because
being used by another application or is missing, followed by a message which
says "WindowsMail could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be
initiated.
"Steve Cochran" wrote:
> Make sure you have any antivirus software set not to scan email. See
> www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3
>
> Also see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#wm Try searching for *.eml and maybe
> you can find the old messages.
>
> steve
>
> "Jean Jester" <JeanJester@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9DD1EF21-C24E-4BF3-BB32-75E3F3F3CB02@microsoft.com...
> >I have numerous old messages saved in different folders whose content I can
> > no longer access. I receive the following message when trying to open:
> > Message cannot be found. The contents of this message cannot be found.
> > Windows Mail. This occured after I followed instructions to fix a problem
> > with an email which could not be deleted. I used WMutil to compact and
> > repair the data base. Any suggestion on how I might get to the content of
> > these messages would be appreciated. Windows Mail is becoming
> > increasingly
> > troublesome. Are there any fixes being contemplated or is Microsoft just
> > trying to drive customers away from this application which is probably not
> > very profitable?
>
>