See here for message recovery techniques: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

You can see if the dbx files for the absent folders are there or not. If
they are not there, then my DBXpress program will analyze the entire hard
drive and might be able to recover some of the messages.

For the future see points 2 and 3 on that page as well.

steve

"Debbie Rosenquist" wrote in message
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I had 3 subfolders under my local folders in outlook express 06. I have not
deleted them but was having some trouble getting my connection to the
Internet while trying to send and receive mail using outlook. Just
wondering are they lost forever or just hiding?