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Re: how to recover overwritten Outlook Express mails
If you have no backup, and the only .dbx files anywhere on the system (I would double check) are newly created ones, then clearly you have a data recovery problem. So the procedure to produce this fault is to change the store folder and close OE? I believe it should copy the folders to the newly selected location when you restart OE, so maybe something happened in the interim.
The chances are that some of the sectors of the DBX files have been overwritten and therefore can only be recovered from the disk with highly-specialised equipment. But if you haven't copied too many files there (could put a cap on the swapfiles size too), you could use a hex or disk editor or something like Norton Disk Doctor the recover the majority of the messages.