Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the reply.

The dbx file with the (1) is the new file. delete the other. If need
be, unsubscribe from the groups and resubscribe after checking that
all dbx files have been deleted.

I've done this and a completely new .dbx has been created. But is there
any way to recover and/or read the contents of the original .dbx? Any idea
what would trigger this problem? Could something have corrupted the dbx?
Is there a file size limit for dbx's? That's the only thing that's similar
between the two incidents. They were two different dbx's but both around
20MB in size.

Make sure get xxx headers at a time is not checked.

I'm not sure what this will accomplish (other than the obvious I've had
this feature checked since I've started using OE. What is the benefit of
doing this, or what is the problem caused by leaving it checked?

But before you do anything, get over to Windows Updates. I'm not sure
what your Windows version is, but from your message headers:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

you are obviously running an outdated and less secure version of OE,
and that may be part of the problem.

Yeah, I'm aware OE is not up to date and unfortunately will have to remain
that way (the updates breaks several things in OE). I am running Win2k and
other than that my system is up to date as far as security patches. OE is
locked down sufficiently that I have no fear of being comprimised. I can't
see this as causing the problem though as I would have encountered it much
sooner.

Thanks again,

Greg


"GO" wrote in message
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Hello,

I'm using OE6 to access the MS Usenet groups (primarily MS's own
servers, news.microsoft.com) and this is the second time this
problem has occurred so I'm hoping I can find some help. When I
"opened" the newsgroup (vista.general) it seems to have ignored my
existing .dbx file and creating
a new listing of all messages (losing all my watched and read
threads). Looking in the message store location
(\D&S\username\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{very-long-string}\Microsoft\Outlook Express) I see
that it has made a new .dbx file. So I now have two:
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general.dbx" and
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general (1).dbx". I closed OE and
deleted the new, smaller one (...vista.general(1).dbx) and restarted
OE but it didn't seem to make any difference. The original file is
still there but the message listing is brand new, and it did not
make a new file this time around. All other newsgroups I read are
fine and have not experienced this
problem. Is there something that would trigger this into happening?
Is there any way I can get OE to read the contents of the old .dbx?
I'm assuming the contents are still there as the file is close to
20MB. I've been using OE for Usenet for years and have never
experienced this before, other than now and about a month ago.


TIA,


Greg