What Bruce said.

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.

- Frequently [I'd recommend daily, in your case] 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 corruption (e.g., loss of messages). Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org
"Billy E. Karlinsey" wrote in message ...
I'm having a problem with my message rules. With may outlook express I have over 600 dbx file/folder to keep tack of my mail. to help manage the common received mail I setup over 130 message rules. Some how my Outlook Express hiccupped I get some message saying something about a error it shutdown Outlook Express and on restart I loss all my message rules. I was redoing them was up to about thirty and the program did it again. I could use some help thoughts on this problem. For starters just what file is this and what folder is it in. If it getting deleted I could copy a back up file to reinstall if lost at the least.
Billy