Unfortunately an "empty" dbx file can be hundreds of megabytes. I've seen
many that are just full of zeroes after the compaction bug.

The user should also install the update referenced at
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2

steve

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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See:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
Recovering lost messages
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4


For your reference, an "empty" DBX file is typically 59 KB.

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


"Jean Paul Bouchet" Jean Paul wrote in
message ...
I am using OE 6.0 with Windows XP SP2. Suddenly, many of the e-mails I had
in
different folders (I have separated the sent email in different folders)
dissapeared. When I look to the files *.dbx by Windows Explorer, I can
see
them and they have bytes. When I tried to import them from another
computer,
I got a message of failure.
Has anyone experienced the same problem. Do you know how I can recover
them?