Bruce,

It still doesn't work.

The only thing I see different than your screen shot is the
location of the message store folder. Your screen shot
shows it within the C drive, under an identity, and
apparently labeled Outlook Express.

On my computer the message store folder is on the D drive,
and under my name. Thus there is no folder above it labeled
Outlook Express - it has been renamed OEemail.

Earlier I was incorrectly following your directions, but the
result has been the same when I dragged the Jeep.dbx folder
to the Desktop heading on Windows Explorer, instead of to
the "main" desktop.

I'm guessing that I'm not doing something correctly with
respect to creating the Jeep folder in the Outlook Express
tree. I have tried it both nested within another folder,
and directly under Local Folders. In each case after
creating the folder I open it (meaning I click on it) and
then close Outlook Express by clicking on the X in the upper
right corner.

Any other ideas?

I appreciate the time you have taken already with this.

============================

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Hagen"
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:12 PM
Subject: .dbx Access Problem


Irrelevant portions sniped


If not, see if the dbx
file for the folder still exists in the message store
and
manually restore
it as follows.

+++ Yes, it still exists, and I tried the steps below
you
suggested.

In Windows Explorer, click on the dbx file for the
missing
folder,
(Jeep.dbx) and drag it to the Desktop.

+++ Did that, and a small icon appears on the desktop.


This is done totally within Windows Explorer. Drag the
Jeep.dbx file from
the message store opened in the right hand page and drag
it to the Desktop
at the top of the Windows Explorer folder tree.




Open OE and create a folder with the
*exact* same name as the one on your Desktop, (Jeep).

+++ Did that - and I wonder if it must be created
directly
under "Local Folders" or if it can be created (nested)
within another folder, such as Cars?


It shouldn't matter, but you must click on that new folder
to open it.



Open the new folder ...

+++ Did that, and the only message shown is that "There
are
no items in this view." (My view option is set to show
all
messages.)


You should see a message as you did. There are no messages
in this view.



and then close OE.

+++ Did that.



By closing OE while the new folder was open.



Go back to Windows Explorer and Click Desktop and drag
the file from the Desktop to the OE store folder

+++ Did that, and the icon remained on the Desktop,
after I
had dragged it to the store folder and released it.
(Maybe
I don't know how to drag and drop? I believe what I was
doing was creating a "shortcut" on the desktop to the
..dbx
file within the store folder - is that what I was
supposed
to be doing?)



You may have been working with a shortcut. (Not exactly
sure how).

In Windows Explorer, you wanted to click on the Desktop at
the top of the
folder tree to reveal all the Desktop icons in the right
hand panel. Prior
to that, you wanted to expand the path to the message
store. (The Outlook
Express folder in Documents and settings).

To drag & drop, you grab the Jeep.dbx folder, with the
left mouse key, in
the right hand pane showing the desktop icons, and drag it
over to the
Outlook Express folder in the left pane. The Outlook
Express folder will
turn blue if you are over it. Now let go of the key and
you should see the
overwrite prompt.


See the attached screen shot. If you expanded the path to
the message store,
and then clicked on Desktop, this is what you should see.
(Some folder names
different, of course).

Grab the Jeep.dbx file in the right pane and drag it over
to the Outlook
Express folder in the left. Do you see the prompt?

Hope this helps.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA




... that you clicked on to
reveal the .dbx files. Prompt - "Do you want to
overwrite......."? Click
Yes.

+++ When I was prompted I did click yes.

+++ But the messages do not show when I go to OE and
click
on the folder that I created.

+++ Other ideas? Am I supposed to restart the computer
after doing these steps?

+++ Thanks - I look forward to more guidance.

======================
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"CWLee" wrote in message
...

(I'm using Windows 2000/pro on a Gateway Computer.)

I had a folder in Outlook Express with a title of
Cars,
and
a corresponding folder Cars.dbx viewable via Windows
Explorer. The folder was getting large, so I moved
various
messages into three newly created folders, Ford,
Chevy,
Jeep - at least I thought that was what I did.
However,
in
Outlook Express I now have only the folders Cars,
Ford,
and
Chevy - but no folder for Jeep. When I use Windows
Explorer
I find Cars.dbx, Ford.dbx, Chevy.dbx, and Jeep.dbx.
The
Jeep.dbx folder has ~7,000 KB of contents, which
seems
about
right.

My problem is how can I access the email stored in
that
Jeep.dbx folder, since there is no Jeep folder in
Outlook
Express?

(I created a new folder in Outlook Express, named
Jeep,
but
that didn't do it. Via Windows Explorer that merely
resulted in a new folder titled Jeep(1).dbx. having
75
KB.
Unsuccessful attempt.)

Any assistance appreciated.

--
----------
CWLee
Former slayer of dragons; practice now limited to
sacred
cows. Believing we should hire for quality, not
quotas,
and
promote for performance, not preferences.