DBXtract 4.5 – Extract Emails from Corrupt Outlook Databases

10/03/2007
17 COMMENTS

DBXtract 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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Hank says:

10/03/2007 at 13:23

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.

Tampa Computer Repair says:

10/12/2007 at 19:06

This is really great! Wish I had it sooner. :-)

James G says:

03/16/2008 at 05:25

Fantastic tool…works perfectly! Many thanks :-)

Chuck M says:

05/22/2008 at 13:46

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”

Willy Decoene says:

09/30/2008 at 17:53

thanks … you saved my life (and my e-mail)

Leonard S. says:

01/21/2009 at 14:06

Fabulous tool. Extracted e-mail from a corrupted inbox and then did a Drag ‘n Drop to the new Inbox.

teddy1955 says:

02/19/2009 at 22:24

thanks very cool tool. moving address to other server and thought we would lose all old mail. this saved them.

Alexandra Unruh says:

03/10/2009 at 14:48

Dear Sir/Madam,

How does this dbxtract work? I am not familiar how to use this program. Any advice…?

AJ North says:

08/25/2009 at 03:20

After a catastrophic loss of OE files (including two separate back-ups), DBXtract literally saved the day, recovering approximately 60% of the lost files (after the .dbx files were recovered using Pandora Recovery and EASUS Deleted File Recovery). Sincere and heartfelt thanks for this exceptional utility.

Alexandra Unruh says:

09/08/2009 at 13:30

I have all these dbx files in my Documents folder as a result of having too much info stored in my Outlook Express. When my computer performed ‘compacting’ files were turned into dbx and relocated in My Documents.

Now I want to look at the info and decide whether I want or to delete. However, because they are in a dbx format, ??I can’t. I’ve tried opening them in Outlook express and to no avail. Maybe I’m not doing it right.

Can you help?

Ali

Helena Francus says:

09/20/2009 at 01:51

Is there any way to do a date filter on this? My friend lost about 8 months’ worth of emails, but the program extracted everything in his Inbox going back to 2005 (over 5,000 emails!)

Tampa computer repair says:

10/15/2009 at 16:07

Yea thats pretty sweet

sheila says:

10/16/2009 at 16:16

I backed up some oe files to a cd…now when i try to access they come back as dbx files which i cannot open. I used your extaction tool…it said it had extracted but i don’t know where it extracted it to..or if it really did ? Help ???

Armandog07 says:

03/06/2010 at 05:42

A great tool
Recup files from corrupted and formatted HD using Easeus Partition Master on DBX then used DBXtract recovering over 70% of lost e mails
Recommend use of DBXTract