Oh, wow. I just learned this is even worse than I thought. Literally all the
folders have cleared completely, including emails and attachments I have to
keep on file. What's up with this? It's a total disaster!

If anyone knows anything I should try to recover this stuff, please help.
Thanks.

JK

"McJ" wrote in message
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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