I'M A DUMMY! now that we have established that, let me tell you my problem, sat night I was deleting ablock of e-mail in oe,running windows xp, I highlighted, hit shift set end of block, hit delete (permanent), I wiped out all my deleted archived emails,(which are too numerous to mention, I never got around to creating folders, I'm a dummy, is there any to safely restore those e-mails, any help would be greatly appreciated. charles betzler Best Electronics repair1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------ Submit A Repair Tip For Everyone Here: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html ------------------------------------------ To REMOVE your email address, click here: http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html To CHANGE your email address, click here: http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html