Is this the method you used for backing up and restoring?
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/

BTW: I don't know how much a year's worth of messages is for you, but
you should know that Outlook Express was not designed for archiving. You
should keep the default mailboxes as small as possible and not let any
mailbox grow large. You should compact your folders when OE asks to do this.

This may help you recover your mail:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

johng wrote:
This is really weird, at least to me. This morning my OE6 hiccupped and lost
one year's worth of messages in the inbox. Well no problem, I thought, I
backed up all my data Friday night. So I inpacked the inbox dbx file,
imported into OE6 - and all those messages were still gone! So I deleted
everything in the inbox and imported again. Still all gone!

Any ideas?

Thanks.