After closing Outlook Express earlier tonight, I got a window asking if I
wanted to compact messages. I clicked yes and it began the process, but then
hung up when it reached the Sent Items folder, possibly because I had not
cleared that out for looooonnnggg time. I wound up having to reboot the
computer, and, when it came back up...the Inbox was completely empty. There
were hundreds of messages in it before and many of the ones from just that
last few days were things I urgently needed to work on this week.

Anyone know if there's a way for me to restore these lost messages? Can they
really be gone when I didn't delete them? Help!

JK