Bill wrote:
Hi All,

Pretty sure that all I did was choose Compact under
ToolsOptionsMaintenanceClean Up, but what has happened is that I
have lost all my folder structures under Inbox and my Newsgroups have
changed massively and now only list a few of what I had and are
listing some of what I unsubscribed to ages ago.

Searching for *dbx identifies some of the groups that I have lost even
though they are not appearing in OE.

Basically its a mess!

What is most important to me really I suppose, is my saved email
messages, which still seem to be there even though the folder
structure has changed.

Would be nice to know what I might have done, but is there any way of
easily recovering the situation or is a couple of hours sorting it
all out?

Cheers.
Bill.

Sounds like you're using XP. Also sounds like you stepped on the compact
process somehow with another app or interrupeted it yourself. Never do
anything else while compact is in process.
If you're up to date with hotfixes etc., your missing stuff should be
sitting in the recycle bin. If not, it's likely gone.

HTH

Pop`

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