What the folder list should look like is:

Local Folders
Inbox
Outbox
Sent Items
Deleted Items
Drafts
Hotmail
Inbox
Sent Items
Deleted Items
Miscellaneous
Betanews.Microsoft.com
Microsoft.betanews...
Microsoft. betanews...
News.EarthLink.net
soc.genealogy...

Do you have anything under Local Folders? If there is a + in front of
Local Folders click it to expand the folders list.

If the Local Folders is missing or is there but doesn't have at least 5
folders listed above, then the Folders.DBX file is probably corrupted.
See what Ron suggested for fixing that.

If the Local Folders look OK, I would remove the Betanews.Microsoft.com
news account, then restart OE and set it up again. A news account
shouldn't have an Inbox etc. It could be that somehow the account got
confused and OE thinks it's an IMAP or HTTP mail account. You didn't by
chance at one time set up Betanews.Microsoft.com saying it was that?

If you continue to have problems, you need to try a new Identity in OE.




--

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


"ilyaz" wrote in message
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Ron and the rest of the people who got involved,
yes, I have Outlook Express and as I mentioned it in my original post,
I'm not concerned with the mail accounts. Everything is OK with them.
My problem is with the weird "additions" to one of my news reader.
Along with the news groups I'm subscribed to, these boxes are
listed...
Here's how it looks:

Hotmail
Inbox
Sent Items
Deleted Items
Miscellaneous
Betanews.Microsoft.com
Inbox
Sent Items
Deleted Items
Microsoft.betanews...
Microsoft. betanews...
News.EarthLink.net
soc.genealogy...

Hope this clarifies my problem.
Regards,
Ilya

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
...
Folders.dbx controls how the folders display.
If you do not have user created folders, close OE, move folders.dbx
from the
OE Store Folder.
A new folders.dbx will be created when you reopen OE.
If that doesn't work, replace the new folders.dbx with the old.
--
Ron Sommer

"ilyaz" wrote in message
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: Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
: While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along
with
the
: two NGs I got "subscription" to Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items.
Now they
: are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried
to
: "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders?
To make
: it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail
accounts,
: EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are
under the
: betanews account.
:
: --
: Ilya Zeldes
: Fort Myers, Florida
:
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