OK, I can do that. That's also the way I interpreted Frank Saunder's
response.....BUT when I read KB918069 that Robear sent, I read "....If more
than one file is corrupted, you may have to restore more than one file. When
this occurs, the Recycle Bin contains more than one mail_folder_name.bak
file." I interpreted that to mean I'd find a backup for each corrupt file. I
just went back and reread KB918069 and notice it says "...After the database
is successfully compacted, the backup copy of the .dbx file is moved to the
Recycle Bin." So this says there's always a backup made, even if there's no
corruption. Well, I just checked my recycle bin, and it's empty, and I
haven't emptied it since I compacted. So, does it always leave a backup
after compacting? If so, what happened to mine?
Larry

"Alias" wrote in message
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Larry wrote:
Thanks Robear. Is that KB article telling me that the copying I saw going
on was corrupt files being backed up, or just files being backed up in
case they are corrupt? Should I be restoring those .bak files I find in
the recycle bin?
Larry

If all is well in OE, just empty the recycle bin.

Alias

"PA Bear" wrote in message
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See:

All e-mail items may be missing when you start Outlook Express 6 Service
Pack 1:
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=918069
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org


Larry wrote:
I downloaded KB918766 to automate the registry counter reset after
manual
compacting. Everything seemed to work fine, except I noticed that
during
the compacting a Copying window popped up from time to time. Is that
normal behavior? I had never seen that before I downloaded the Hotfix.
Thanks. Larry