"nb" wrote in message

Outlook express keeps deleting all old message and I lose them they
end up on the desktop filling the screen, they become DBX files, I've
found them copied them to a new file and tried importing them, in the
past it worked but now I can`t get some of the old stuff back only
recent, thats Problem 1.
Problem 2 is why does the message keep falling out of outlook
express in the first place.I ignore the message do you want to
compact message so why does it happen

OE compacts files, removing wasted space taken up by deleted messages. It
does not compress messages. If the compacting process is interrupted by the
user closing the process with Task Manager or by turning off the computer
before compacting has completed, messages will be lost.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
"Anyone who prefers security over freedom deserves neither."