1. Well, thanks to Galen, I now have a free OE Viewer for later use.

2. PA Bear told me how to do user-created files to store my stuff and how
the cow ate the cabbage with regard to what probaby is my reality: all sent
letters lost but...

3. Thanks to Bruce Hagen, I now know how to find the location of all the OE
files and make 'em visible (unfortunately the sent files weren't there
anymore)

4. Steve Cochran turned me on to oehelp.com which has some good tips about
what to do if all else fails. Since all else has failed (so far) I'll give
it a try. Can't hurt.

I WILL back up more often to dvd and

THANKS OE PROFESSIONALS IN THIS NEWSGROUP. I speak for a lot of
not-that-illiterate guys out there that sincerely appreciate the time you
put in to try to help us out when s**t happens.

Really. Thank all of you very much.

rock


"rock9995" wrote in message
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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