Windows version? What were you moving, to where, and how were you moving
it?

General OE Caveats:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently
perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

- WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
automatically compacting your message store.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org


Daniel Kaplan wrote:
So in all my maintenance things, I was moving files to their own Yearly
Inbox.

Somewhere in the renaming OE hiccuped and I lost 2006. But I could see
the
dbx file, which I copied. Now I try to make a new folder in OE, call it
inbox_temp, and then when I quit OE, I rename the copied file to
"inbox_temp.dbx" and the size is right, but OE always shows that folder.

any app out there that will recover a DBX file?

please? I HATE %^&*() microsoft when crap like this happens.