Bear, I made rock9995 my default email this afternoon after removing an old
bellsouth address that had been the default for a long time. It seems
mighty co-incidental that all the sent files in OE disappeared right after
that. Except for the paid account of course.

after piddling around for awhile looking for them, I hit "synchronize all"
and watched some files get downloaded in the various accounts but if that
also compacted them I don't know. I didn't actually compact anything by
clicking something as far as I know.

they're gone aren't they? gone Gone GONE!

rock

ps. thanks



"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
Are you attempting to recover messages from Hotmail-Sent Items folder (per
your original thread here, "what the? BEAR and the other pros...are you
there??") ?

Have you compacted all OE folders since they went missing?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

rock9995 wrote:
try getting a free dbx viewer from snapfish.com to try to find and
recover
lost (maybe) OE files.

I did all that and installed a program (freeware) called OE View but now
I
don't know where to look in the computer.

I"ve looked in the Outlook Express folder in the Program Files folder but
no dbx files or any kind of OE database.

Where the Sam Hill are the OE emails stored on the computer?? What
directory? Anybody know?

rock