Thanks Steve.
"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
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The files are full of zeroes. Try opening them in Notepad and you will
see that they are blank.
For the future see points 2 and 3 he www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx There
is a "fix" for the compaction bug. And backup frequently.
I think the only shot you have at recovery is to try the extract from disk
feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/). It will search every disk
cluster on the hard drive for messages and not just the files.
steve
"Just Me" wrote in message
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I have several sub folders under Inbox which contained lots of e-mail. I
was asked to compact all folders when exiting the program to save space. I
did. Now when I go to the sub folders there are "No Messages" in there
now. When I go to Identities\Microsoft\Outlook Express in windows explorer
there are some large files which means to me that the messages are still
there. Also the View in all the sub folders is set to "show all messages"
Any ideas how to get them to show up again.