When you open Outlook Express and click on Tools/Options/Maintenance and
then Store Folder button, what is the location indicated for your message
store folder? If it indicates your Desktop, then you or some other user of
your computer has changed the location.

If it's only a single folder that has moved to that area, post back for some
instructions on how to move it back to your store folder (copy/paste will
not do it).
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6

"Jim" wrote in message
...
msoe.dll is 6.00.2900.2869 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.060316.1512)

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

What windows version are you running? Open Outlook Express, click
Help/About and report back with the version number shown in that screen
for
"msoe.dll" and we may be able to help you. (You have to scroll down to
see
that file.) Since you post from the website, we have no way of knowing
what
versions you are running.

--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.


"Jim" wrote in message
...
Can anyone recommend a user-friendly, effective file recovery program
for
Outlook Express? My read e-mail files have somehow escaped to the
desktop
and I can't get them to go back into OE. I think this happened during a
file
compacting operation. There are a number of these programs for sale
online
but would appreciate some input on actual experience with them. Thanks,
Jim