UnDBX 0.20 - Best Outlook Extractor for your Netbook
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Date Added: |
Jun 02, 2010 04:49 AM |
Publisher's Description: |
Tool to extract, recover and undelete e-mail messages from Outlook Express .dbx files.
OPERATION
When run for the first time, UnDBX extracts all the messages as individual .eml files.
In subsequent runs UnDBX synchronizes the output folder with the contents of the .dbx file:
new messages in the .dbx file, that do not correspond to existing .eml files, will be extracted
existing .eml files, that do not correspond to messages in the .dbx file, will be treated as deleted messages and will be deleted
This way UnDBX can facilitate fast incremental backup of .dbx files.
The file names of extracted .eml files are composed from the contents of the From:, To: and Subject: message headers. The modification time of each file is set to match the date specified by the Date: header.
In recovery mode, UnDBX can open corrupted .dbx files (including files larger than 2GB) and recover their contents and undelete deleted messages.
ADVANCED USAGE
NORMAL OPERATION
Run the following command in a command-line window, to extract e-mail messages from all the .dbx files in <DBX-FOLDER> to corresponding sub-folders in <OUTPUT-FOLDER>:
undbx <DBX-FOLDER> <OUTPUT-FOLDER>
You may also specify a single .dbx file to extract, instead of a folder.
If the destination folder is omitted, the .dbx files will be extracted to sub-folders in the current working folder.
RECOVERY MODE
In recovery mode, UnDBX attempts to recover e-mail messages from corrupted .dbx files:
undbx --recover <DBX-FOLDER> <OUTPUT-FOLDER>
Again, you may omit the output folder, and you may specify a single .dbx file, instead of an input folder.
During the recovery process UnDBX scans the .dbx file for e-mail message fragments, and collects them into .eml files. Recovery can take a long while to complete, so please be patient.
In recovery mode UnDBX always extracts all the messages it can find, instead of extracting only those messages that have not been extracted yet.
Keep in mind that recovered messages may be corrupted.
DELETED MESSAGES
Deleted messages are normally stored by Outlook Express in a special folder (e.g. "Deleted Items"), and can thus be restored by extracting them from the corresponding .dbx file.
Most of the contents of deleted messages still exists in the original .dbx file, as long it has not been compacted or otherwise modified.
In recovery mode, UnDBX attempts to undelete any deleted message fragment it can find.
NOTE: Outlook Express overwrites the first 4 bytes of every 512-byte chunk of each deleted message. In other words, some data is permanently lost when a message is deleted and there's no general way to fully recover deleted messages.
SOURCE CODE
SNAPSHOT
UnDBX current source code snapshot is available at http://code.google.com/p/undbx/downloads/list
REPOSITORY
UnDBX development source code may be cloned from its public Git repository at http://github.com/ZungBang/undbx/tree
COMPILING
UnDBX uses GNU Autoconf/Automake:
tar -xvzf undbx-0.20.tar.gz
cd undbx-0.20
./configure
make
make install
On Windows, this means that you need to install either Cygwin or MinGW.
If you got the source code from the source repository, you'll need to generate the configure script before building UnDBX, by running
autoreconf -vfi
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Documentation: |
http://code.google.com/p/undbx/ |
Last Download: |
Feb 27, 2024 05:53 PM
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Downloads: |
472 |
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Windows |
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