Hi, have today found that all my sub folders, personal, business etc are
empty, in Outlook Express, and appear to have all moved into the Deleted
Items folder. Would the fact that I have recently received a load of Spam,
with a Virus WIN32:vb-CD2 (WRM), though it was caught and removed by
Antivirus, have any bearing on it?...Rebbo

It might if you are using an antivirus program and having it set to scan
incoming email messages. See this link for what may have happened:
The Other E-Mail Threat: File Corruption in Outlook Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

To try and recover the messages (assuming they were important), you can try
using DBXpress in its Recover from Disk mode:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

However, the longer you wait, the greater the chance that the space occupied
by the missing messages will be overwritten. The cost is small if the
messages were important to you (and why else would you be saving them?).
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.



"Richard" wrote in message
...
Hi, have today found that all my sub folders, personal, business etc are
empty, in Outlook Express, and appear to have all moved into the Deleted
Items folder. Would the fact that I have recently received a load of Spam,
with a Virus WIN32:vb-CD2 (WRM), though it was caught and removed by
Antivirus, have any bearing on it?...Rebbo

Thanks Jim, Have clicked on your first link and now finding a lot that I
didn't know about OE6.Will feedback when solved..Many thanks...Rebbo
"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
It might if you are using an antivirus program and having it set to scan
incoming email messages. See this link for what may have happened:
The Other E-Mail Threat: File Corruption in Outlook Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

To try and recover the messages (assuming they were important), you can
try using DBXpress in its Recover from Disk mode:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

However, the longer you wait, the greater the chance that the space
occupied by the missing messages will be overwritten. The cost is small
if the messages were important to you (and why else would you be saving
them?).
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.



"Richard" wrote in message
...
Hi, have today found that all my sub folders, personal, business etc are
empty, in Outlook Express, and appear to have all moved into the Deleted
Items folder. Would the fact that I have recently received a load of
Spam, with a Virus WIN32:vb-CD2 (WRM), though it was caught and removed
by Antivirus, have any bearing on it?...Rebbo

Thank you for that. Have clicked on your first link and am now finding out a
lot I didn't know about OE6...Thanks again...
"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
It might if you are using an antivirus program and having it set to scan
incoming email messages. See this link for what may have happened:
The Other E-Mail Threat: File Corruption in Outlook Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

To try and recover the messages (assuming they were important), you can
try using DBXpress in its Recover from Disk mode:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

However, the longer you wait, the greater the chance that the space
occupied by the missing messages will be overwritten. The cost is small
if the messages were important to you (and why else would you be saving
them?).
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.



"Richard" wrote in message
...
Hi, have today found that all my sub folders, personal, business etc are
empty, in Outlook Express, and appear to have all moved into the Deleted
Items folder. Would the fact that I have recently received a load of
Spam, with a Virus WIN32:vb-CD2 (WRM), though it was caught and removed
by Antivirus, have any bearing on it?...Rebbo