There is a patch that addresses this issue. See
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

Also see point 4 for message recovery techniques. Your only recourse may be
the extract from disk feature of DBXpress.

steve

"G. Silber" wrote in message
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Sorry if this has been discussed, I've searched for answers without
success. The problem - Outlook Express does a cleanup/compact routine
every so often which does whatever it does whenever it does and I haven't
paid much attention to it because I assume it truncates old messages. But
today after a cleanup, all my messages from June 25 until today are GONE.
Unbelievable!!! If this process isn't so darn annoying in itself, it now
deletes new messages??? Anyway, I know where the .dbx folder is for my
identity, but don't know if this is any help. My question is - how do I
retrieve these messages? Also, is there a way to stop this extremely
annoying task of automatic cleanup? Thanks in advance.