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@submix8c: Maybe it's down to user error. I only told you what happened. @jaclaz: Thanks for the advice. I found the folders using the instructions you provided. Now I have a mystery to solve. I have 3 "Inbox.dbx" files in the Outlook Express folder. Inbox.dbx. The missing Inbox.dbx IS listed. ALL my missing emails ARE there using the Mailview tool you suggested (but NOT listed in the Inbox, when I open the Outlook Express program). Inbox (1).dbx. Mailview says: "file does not contain any messages". Inbox (2).dbx. This contains the only emails I can see in my inbox when i use the Outlook Express program. Starting from February 2014. So, it looks like NOTHING is lost, but somehow ALL my emails from January 2014 and earlier, contained in Inbox.dbx were removed from the OE program and it just lists the emails from Inbox (2).dbx. N.B. The "new" Inbox works fine, but is obviously missing all my older emails. I also just discovered the same thing happened in my Sent folder. I have two Sent.dbx folders. Sent.dbx. This file contains ALL my older emails that are missing from the OE program. Sent (1).dbx. This contains the only emails I can see in my inbox when i use the Outlook Express program. Starting from February 2014. So it's the same pattern. How do I get the older Inbox and Sent emails back to the OE program? I'd also love to know what might have caused this in the first place. I have lots of other emails/folders/addresses in Outlook Express that were NOT affected. Only my main Inbox and Sent files. This is really weird. Please help some more if you can. Thank you!

I did what you said, but I couldn't find "Display the contents of system folders". Everything else you suggested was changed. I had a look in the unhidden folders and got to C:\Documents and Settings\<yourusername>\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{stringofhexnumbers} folder, which was blank. I checked in admin, all users and default user. Each stringofnumbers folder was blank.

I tried searching for the directory you listed, but I can't find it. For a start C:\Documents and Settings\ leads me to "Administrator" and "All Users".(no username, although I log on as the Administrator). I tried looking in both folders for "Local Settings" and "Application Data", but no such luck. I even tried a search for those folders and any files containing "outlookexpress" or .BAK", but I couldn't find anything.

Hi, I use 2000 for one of my machines and Outlook Express 6 for emails. When I logged on today and started OE all my older emails were there but no new emails. So I closed out the program and started again. This time I got new emails but all my older ones disappeared! I closed out and tried again and the new ones disappeared too. The new ones have since returned but not the old ones. The weird thing is that it's only happening to emails in my main Inbox folder. All other email accounts/folders are fine. I tried Nortons Systemworks 2006 and CCleaner but no luck getting my old emails back. I remembered a program called ScanDBX that fixed a virus or some problem I had years ago. Is that worth trying? My antivirus (Avast) shows the machine virus-free. Please help. I'd hate to think I lost 1000's of emails. : (