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ForumsDBXtract 4.5 is a free (anything above 4.5 becomes paid), stand alone utility that is designed to extract emails out of corrupt Outlook Express databases (.dbx) and turn them into individual .eml files. In laymans terms for our not-so-techie readers, Outlook Express stores your emails in a single database file called a DBX. This file can become corrupt for many reasons and all your emails inside can become unreadable. This tool can extract all your emails so you can read them seperately as .EML files.
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Cool little tool great to use on those worried customers about thier precious emails that generally aren’t all that important. I would be more interested in a tool that converts those to the format for Outlook instead of Outlook express. To explain I have done PC moves and HDD recovery moves at the same time as some software upgrades. The working solution is find and copy the DBX files into OE and then have Outlook grab them from OE. It is one step I would like to avoid and just be able to import them straight into Outlook. Regardless this is a nice tool MS does include a tool that I know to repair Outlook .pst files not sure if they give you one for the .dbx as well.
This is really great! Wish I had it sooner.
Fantastic tool…works perfectly! Many thanks
Does this tool work in vista?? I’ve downloaded 4.5 to desktop, and it won’t open. Instead, it gives me a notice of “Non Fatal Registry read error 2″