Hello,

I'm using OE6 to access the MS Usenet groups (primarily MS's own servers,
news.microsoft.com) and this is the second time this problem has occurred
so I'm hoping I can find some help. When I "opened" the newsgroup
(vista.general) it seems to have ignored my existing .dbx file and creating
a new listing of all messages (losing all my watched and read threads).
Looking in the message store location (\D&S\username\Local
Settings\Application Data\Identities\{very-long-string}\Microsoft\Outlook
Express) I see that it has made a new .dbx file. So I now have two:
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general.dbx" and
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general (1).dbx". I closed OE and deleted
the new, smaller one (...vista.general(1).dbx) and restarted OE but it
didn't seem to make any difference. The original file is still there but
the message listing is brand new, and it did not make a new file this time
around. All other newsgroups I read are fine and have not experienced this
problem. Is there something that would trigger this into happening? Is
there any way I can get OE to read the contents of the old .dbx? I'm
assuming the contents are still there as the file is close to 20MB. I've
been using OE for Usenet for years and have never experienced this before,
other than now and about a month ago.


TIA,


Greg