I don't know of any OE process that would create files named
"Inbox.dbx.bak". Sounds like something someone did manually.

If OE gets into trouble and creates a new DBX file, the old one gets a
number add to the name in parentheses such as Inbox (2).dbx. If the
compacting process has a problem, you get a DBT file such as Inbox.dbt.

As for renaming files, you can't do that with OE open. And I wouldn't
mess with the Inbox directly. Instead create a new user folder in OE
and work with that. If you get the mails there, you can always move
them to the folder that you want.
How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Also see:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
Recovering lost messages
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4



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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"graham menzies-kitchin" wrote in message
o.uk...
All the emails in inbox have disappeared for some totally unknown
reason.
If I go Identities/microsoft/OE I have Inbox.dbx 137KB and
Inbox.dbx.bak
7.338KB (which I didn't create) so I still have emails.
Deleted Inbox.dbx and try to change backup file to .dbx. It wont let
me.
How do I remedy this situation?
With thanks for any help.

Graham

XP+SP2