Well that was a rather dum thing to do. OE found the health.dbx file was
corrupt so it made a new non-corrupt one and you renamed it, and then when
it made another you deleted it.

The only thing that might recover the messages is DBXpress in its extract
from disk mode, which will analyze the entire hard drive disk clusters for
messages and will probably find those that you deleted. See
www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/

Next time don't mess with the files in the message store, or if you do, at
least back them up first. You may be applying what you consider is common
sense to the filenames, but OE is nonsensical at times.

steve



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when I changed the name of the .dbx folder.

Only one of the .dbx folders has a number after the name: Health (1).dbx.
I
removed the (1) and restarted my computer. I did this when I kept getting
an
error message popup box (with no errors listed) after receiving email
(which
turns out to have been a problem with the email scanning in my antivirus
program).

Then there were two folders: Health.dbx and Health (1).dbx. I checked my
Outlook Express 6 Inbox and there was a new message in the Health folder,
but
none of the old emails. So I deleted the Health (1).dbx folder, and
restarted
my computer again. I still don't have the old emails (Yes, I know: I
should
have copied the folders before any changes). Is there anyway of retrieving
the old emails, as I haven't used my CCleaner or Windows Disk Scan?

Why does this one folder have a number with it?

Thanks,
Joan