Maybe our definition of a store folder is not the same. I am saying that of
the 20 folders listed under local folders 5 are now empty when viewed by
IE6; the normal way to access them.

They were small size,not bloated.

I would never interrupt compacting.

They were OK a few weeks ago, they are seldom used and only checked all
folders now as one was found empty when I went to retrieve a invite.

You gave me a idea though and looked at the folder using Windows Explorer
and found that the folder itself contained about what I expected to find
with messages stored. Could it be that my only identity currently available
is "main identity" as I deleted other identities recently.

If so do you know how I might recover the data found in the files.

SG



"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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How were you attempting to open a store folder? They are not readable.

What are the sizes of these dbx files?

What could have caused it? A lot of things such as e-mail scanning,
bloated folders and disrupting the compacting process are the most common
reasons.

No XP update is responsible for this.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"shakey" wrote in message
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I just discovered a problem similar to one by Joseph Malet in another
thread here but did not want to interrupt his thread.
In my case I went to open some seldom used store folders and find that
approximately one third of my 20 folders are EMPTY, others OK going back
years. I am using XP Pro SP3 and OE6 version ending in 5512 and use in
and out box only for immediate viewing then move to permanent storage
folders. The empty folders only had 5 or so messages in them so not
overloaded.
I have backups, not yet reviewed, and think I can recover but maybe what
he is seeing and what happened to me is a cause for worry about some XP
update?
Some empty - some not is strange. Cannot imagine how I could have caused
that.
SG