OE on my Dad's PC is fried. I told him months ago he MUST go through the inbox and delete the emails he doesn't need or put them in other folders because at that time he had 2500+ emails, and the folders could not be compacted due to corruption. No backup could be made either because the program said the same thing about corruption. Well, he didn't. Now at 4700 emails, the inbox go so corrupted that NO EMAIL could even be downloaded! It was giving the error 0x800C0133 while trying to download email. So I told him to not try and receive anymore email, I disabled the auto check for email, and I told him he has to now go through the inbox and move all the email to a folder on the HD. Doing a "Select all" of the emails and dragging them to the folder did not work, nothing happened! So he's been manually going through them one-by-one and putting them in other folders on the HD. But during this process he really screwed up something bad. I have absolutely no idea what he did, but EVERY EMAIL in the inbox disappeared! The inbox is TOTALLY EMPTY. Yet I looked in the inbox.dbx file in the storage folder, and it's almost 1GB in size! Where the heck is the email??????? How can they be recovered? If they can't be recovered by conventional means, then I know about the dbx extractors that may work to extract the .eml files from the dbx file. I think I have one or two that I'll try after reading replies about this problem. DBXtract works, but that won't fix the problem. I tried deleted the folders.dbx file, that didn't help. I also tried to create a new identity, but it will not switch identities! I try and change, OE closes and immediately opens up again, still on Main Identity! ALL other folders he's created CAN be compacted. I have not tried to compact the allegedly "empty" inbox yet in its present state out of fear that may clear the inbox.dbx file back to the default empty (I think it is) 72k. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://www.OrpheusComputing.com http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com ========================= The list's FAQ's can be seen by sending an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with FAQ in the subject line. To unsubscribe, subscribe, set Digest or Vacation to on or off, go to //www.freelists.org/list/pcworks . You can also send an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with Unsubscribe in the subject line. Your member list settings can be found at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi/l=pcworks . Once logged in, you have access to numerous other email options. The list archives are located at //www.freelists.org/archives/pcworks/ . All email posted to the list will be placed there in the event anyone needs to look for previous posts. -zxdjhu-