All of the following works impeccably with JAWS. I have found the following to work when other methods did not. 1. Create an empty folder in Outlook Express. 2. If you have messages in your Inbox, move them into the empty folder. You will be using your Inbox later on for the soon-to-be-recovered messages. 3. Close Oe. 4. Via the Run dialogue, go into C: Enter. Then pick C:\Documents and Settings\[Yourname] or, for earlier Os's, Windows, right-arrow into Application Data, etc. Cursor down. If there is only one folder highlighted in any place, select it with spacebar. If you need to expand the folder tree, use the right-arrow key. 5. When your in the right area [string of numbers, with all of your .dbx files, plus some more you might not have known about], delete the Inbox.dbx. When you come to the mislaid .dbx folder, which might be Inbox1.dbx, or whatever folder got corrupted plus #.dbx, press F2 to enter the Rename field. Here, type "Inbox" (so that it becomes inbox.dbx). 6. You can now exit all the run and other windows that are open, so Alt-F4 and close them. 7. Re-enter Outlook Express. If you struck lucky, your just-renamed Inbox will be your restored Inbox, with all the messages from the apparently lost folder. . ----- Original Message ----- From: "dennis" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:43 PM Subject: Re: disappearing email in inbox thats the first place i looked. show all messages was checked hide wasn't. ----- Original Message ----- >From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:14 PM Subject: Re: disappearing email in inbox > The only way I know that you might not be seeing messages if they have not > been moved or deleted is if under view, current view, you have hide read > messages checked if they've all bee nread, they will appear to be gone. > > Johnnie Apple Seed > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "dennis" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:22 PM > Subject: Re: disappearing email in inbox > > > i haven't got any answers about that yet. i hope to find out.what did you > do > right before this happened? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mark" <mwittig@xxxxxxx> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:46 PM > Subject: Re: disappearing email in inbox > > >> this just in the past 5 mins has happened to me is there a way to get the >> messages back? thanks mark >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "dennis" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:16 PM >> Subject: disappearing email in inbox >> >> >> last nigh i did a scan disc and from windows update updated direct x 9. >> when >> i opened my email this morning the 15 messages i had last night were >> gone. >> i >> have seen this in the past after a crash and i'm really stumped. i >> didn't >> delete them and they didn't go to any other folder. i'm running xp pro >> with >> jfw5.1 does anybody have any ideas how this would happen and if i can get >> the mesages back again? >> -- >> To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to >> jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. >> Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw >> >> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or >> the >> way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact >> the >> list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> -- >> To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to >> jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. >> Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw >> >> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or >> the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather >> contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or > the > way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. 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Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx