IMHO, what you should do is create a 2009 Sent Items archive folder now and
once a day, drag all your Sent Items messages to it. Don't wait until
January, 2010.

If you find a dbx file with the missing messages, you may be able to move
the messages in among the others. Post back if you find something and we can
discuss it at that time.

You still have the option of DBXpress if these messages are that important
to you.

DBXpress:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx

You may need to run it in the Extract From Disk Mode if its normal recovery
mode fails to find the lost messages.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Tom Brown" wrote in message
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Thanks Bruce and PA Bear,

I tried all the monkeying around with the Sent Items.dbx and .bak files
and Recycle Bin and those messages in that date range seem to be gone fair
and square. So, now I am going through our nightly backups and restoring
the Sent Items.dbx for each night. Each attempt takes about 15 minutes
and so far I am only back to June 22 and have not located when they
disappeared yet.

But, let's assume I do find a Sent Items.dbx that has the messages
included. Is there any way to APPEND/ADD the sent messages from that date
to today after I restore the folder?

Thanks,

Tom


"Tom Brown" wrote in message
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Another strange one. My wife just discovered that all emails in the Sent
Items between Jan 1, 2009 and May 28, 2009 are missing and I can't find
them anywhere. What could cause this?

We routinely archive all Sent Items from previous years in customized
folders like Saved Sent 2007 or Saved Sent 2008, hence the Jan 1, 2009
date being the first one in the current Sent Items. She is running XP
and IE 7.

Tom