I have been reading some of the posts that already exist in this group and am
now aware of some of the problems that can occur when compacting. Some of the
solutions are a bit over my head therefore anyone who is kind enough to
answer this please bare this in mind.

Recently I was prompted to "Compact" my emails / Folders in Outlook Express
6. Afterwards I experienced the following problems.

1) My sub folders all became main folders under the local folders.
2) Some folders are missing from the local folders list, however they do
appear to exist as .dbx files.
3) All of my recent emails in my "Sent Items" folder are missing.
4) My link to this discussion group (Outlook Express 6) has disappeared.

Can anyone explain why these problems have occurred and more importantly how
can I overcome them? I have used a "System Restore" to a point before I
compacted when everything was ok, but this did not help.

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Regards
Pete