In View | *Current View*, is anything selected except Show all messages? If
so, uncheck them.

I don't believe it is because of your Inbox size, but that will get you in
trouble in other ways.

A general warning:

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become
corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move
your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created
folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while
working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no
folders are open. Then: FileWork Offline (or double click Working Online in
the Status Bar). FileFolderCompact all folders. Don't touch anything until
the compacting is completed.

In ToolsOptionsMaintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background and
leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.

And backup often.

Backup and Resto

http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/

http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

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Hello,

I'm having a problem with my inbox receiving messages and sorting them
by the sender's name instead of the way they are received. I know this
sounds like an easy thing to correct, but I have gone to ViewSort By
and set the settings so that the messages would arrive as received by
date, in order of sent, and also in descending order, so that the
latest message would be on top of list. As many times as I repeat this
action, it doesn't stick, the messages are still being received and
catagorized by the name of the sender whereever that person's name is
on the list.. This makes me overlook new messages because I don't see
them. Is there something I can do to correct this other than the usual
settings, and what exactly causes this problem to keep re-occurring?
Could it be anything to do with saving too many messages in the inbox
so that I can refer to them again?

Thank you for any help you can offer,
Sanandra