Why it happens:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

Recovering the missing data: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx (#2 and #4)
and http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918069 (see Notes section under
Resolution)
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DBXpress (faster, more powerful, with even greater functionality than
DBXtract)
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
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Avoiding Such Corruption in Futu

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Frequently perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working
offline". More at http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

- Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it occur, and do not attempt to
close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if Automatic Compacting
is taking place.

- Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can cause
corruption (i.e., loss of messages) and provides no additional protection:

Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Tony wrote:
Hi, My email folders were recently compressed and I have only just noticed
that the bottom half of the folders in my list are empty. The top half
have
all of the original messages as intended. I opened the root OE folder and
can see that all of the folders are present and under list/details, all
the
data is still present (just under 100mb for all of them) I did an import
only to find that, again, all of the top folders have got their messages
repeated but nothing dowloaded on the others (a second import brought same
results). What might have been the reason for this? Why are they not
importing and is there anything I an do to retrieve these? I am a bit
worried because I do ot have a back up and they are important.
Any advise greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Tony