Tis a tedious process, but with any luck, if you open the deleted.dbx in notepad, then scroll through the file, you will notice the text in there is of deleted emails, sift through it I guess until you find the group of text your looking for......It is also filled with weird characters Darryl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda" > is there a way to recover a deleted email in outlook express ive searched since 11 pm last night! i sseriously need to get it back To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/