John Louis wrote:
I am missing some older messages after I have consolidated some older
Outlook Express folders. For example, after establishing a new folder
"Finances", I moved all financial related messages into appropriate
subfolders relevant to different financial organizations.

When I search for files with the dbx extension, two similarly named
folders are displayed, such as "XYZ.dbx" and "XYZ (1).dbx" where the
latter folder has a newer date.

Outlook Express shows only one folder "XYZ" which contain no messages.

It appears that the missing messages may be in the older folders
(without the (1) in the name).

How can I open the older instead of the new folders?

Thanks

John Louis

It means your original folder is damaged and OE created a new one. Do
not store mail in any of the defualt folders of OE. Disable "compact in
the background" and do this regularly, manually, whilst offline.

Have a look at this link.
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone

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Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)