No good. Might wanna try this: stop all exchange services. Rename the mdbdata dir to mdbdata.TLA (Three Letter Acronym). Create a new mdbdata folder and restore the priv and pub files from backup, plus all the log files from backup. THEN start the services. Give it time to start - if everything works right, it will take some time to read all the log files. Then, if everything goes ok, make your client WATCH you do a full backup, and have said client notice that it deletes alllllll those log files, like magic :) If you can find them, Microsoft had a two part document about disaster recovery for Exchange 5.5 - haven't seen an equivalent one for Exchange 2000 as of yet... Matt Walkowiak -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Auiler [mailto:JAuiler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:36 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] recovering from deleted log files http://www.MSExchange.org/ - Re-Vamped! One of our clients deleted ALL of their log files to gain disk space, now the info store won't start. We've restored from backup with no luck. Any advice? Ex 5.5 NT 4sp2 Jennifer Auiler ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: matt.walkowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')