I don't understand why you can't believe that "yesterday's" email can't be
1.24 MB. Any messages with images embedded or attached?

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Larry" wrote in message
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I haven't been following this thread but this confuses me. How did you
determine the size of it when it was 400KB? And when it was 1.24 MB?

By seeing the size of the Inbox.dbx file in Windows Explorer.

2. Get any of the many programs to extract messages from .dbx files
and
run
it

I did try OE Extract and it doesn't do anything and provides no
instructions, so I guess one of the nonfreeware apps is next.


"dadiOH" wrote in message
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Larry wrote:
Strange things going on (see below), but I think the problem may be
solvable.

1. The Inbox, prior to the problem, would have been around 80 or 90
MB. As I said, my procedure is to let it build up for a few weeks
and then move a lot of it into a custom folder. But after the
problem occurred, the Inbox was 130 KB. After I received e-mails
since this morning, it went up to about 400 KB.

2. But here's the strange thing: just now I looked again, and the
only Inbox.dbx in the OE folder has 1.24 MB!!! So somehow it's
returned.

I haven't been following this thread but this confuses me. How did you
determine the size of it when it was 400KB? And when it was 1.24 MB?
________________

3. Yet the Inbox in the OE application is still just the e-mails
received since this morning.

Because it is screwed up. That is, whatever methodology used to
determine
messages start/end and/or count is wrong. Like a file that has its EOF
in
the wrong place/
__________________

This is what I'd do...

1. Save a copy of Inbox.dbx somewhere

2. Get any of the many programs to extract messages from .dbx files and
run
it

3. If it is successful in getting your messages, save them as MAIL (
i.e.,
*.eml - separate, discrete messages) in a folder on your desktop.

If not successful, forget what follows.

4. Delete Inbox.dbx using Explorer

5. Open OE and display its Inbox - which should now be empty

6. Select all the recovered email messages in your temporary desktop
folder
and drag them to the OE pane where they would normally be displayed.

7. Close OE

dadiOH