And again, you do not include previous messages.

You have to drag the Inbox.dbx file out of the message store to the Desktop.
Then go to the Recycle Bin and right click on the Inbox.bak file and then
click Restore. Go back to the message store and rename it to Inbox.dbx.

Here it is once more spelled out:

In Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the missing, or empty, folder
and drag it to the Desktop. It can be deleted later once you have
successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the Message Store.

Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the *exact* same
name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. Eg: If the
file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named Saved. Open the new folder
and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue on to
the next step.

Open the Recycle bin and right click on the bak file for the folder in
question and click Restore. Open the Message Store back up and change the
file extension from .bak to .dbx. Close the Message Store and open OE. The
messages should now be back in the folder.

If the messages are successfully restored, you can go ahead and delete the
old dbx file that you moved to the Desktop.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"jseggerman" wrote in message
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OK I got this far. I found my deleted inbox mail. How do I put it back
in
my inbox. It is telling me I cannot open it because windows does not
who created the dbx file. Now I am stumped again. Any thing more you can
offer. I truly appreciate your time and apologize for being a slow
learner.