When you move messages to a new folder, and delete the old one, it will
still show a dbx file for the deleted one. You can safely delete it from the
store folder.

The reason it shows some size is because when you delete, or move messages,
the space they took up is not recovered until you compact your folders.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"donna" wrote in message
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I have an archive folder section in OE6 and had created a subgroup off of
this with 4 mail folders. I wanted the 4 mail folders to be part of the
main group. So I created new folders under the main group with slightly
different names. I copied and pasted all the messages from the subgroup
into these new folders. I then deleted the empty folders from OE6. However,
when I went into the store folder on C drive, the deleted folders were
still listed as dbx files??? Why is this and what can I do about it because
when I click on the properties of the deleted dbx files, it suggests they
still have the data in them?

Thanks.