"David at Doha" wrote in message
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We've lost one year's Sent Items messages from OE, probably due to
interupted
compacting. There are now 1265 files remaining in Sent Items folder.

Before reading your message below I found the Sent Items.bak in the RB and
clicked restore. I have since located a Sent Items DBX file in OE
Identities
and have made .bak copy on the desktop. The icons accompanying all the
items
in Identities are incidentally for Wordpad. The DBX file is labelled as
151,000 KB but sized at 147MB under properties. The files are titled DBX
and
not .dbx.

I've followed your suggested procedures but these have not restored the
missing messages to Sent Items. I am not sure how to change the file
extensions from .bak to dbx. If you can point me in the right direction
it
would be much appreciated.


150528 KB = 147 MB.

One of the choices when you right click a file in Windows Explorer is
Rename.

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