JC Anderson wrote:
This may have been addressed before, but I couldnt' find it if so.

This morning, I booted Outlook Express 6 on Windows XP and the
contents of the Inbox and Deleted were going. The Sent box is still
there.

How can I recover, and how do I prevent it from happening again?

Thanks!

Why Mail Disappears:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone

About File Corruption:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

Recovery tools:

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

DBXpress is the best chance of recovery when run in disk mode if the
loss
happened during compacting. Also faster for large folders:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

Steve Cochran has added a button in his new version of OE Tool
that will not only Compact All Folders, but at the same time,
resets the "Compact Check Count" to zero whenever you compact
manually. You will see the prompt again if you do not compact
before 100 closings.

http://www.oehelp.com/OETool/

It is still advised to check Work Offline before you compact.


A general warning if you don't want to lose your messages in the futu

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.

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Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (Outlook Express)