Charles, You deleted this from within the OE program or from Explorer? When you empty your email INBOX the contents get dumped into another folder called DELETED ITEMS (within OE program). If this is what you did then your emails are still intact, just in another folder now. If what you did was delete the contents of the DELETED ITEMS folder, then we have a problem. You will need a file recovery program to undelete the file which may still be intact on your hard drive. Don't get your hopes up because if you were using your computer to move or write new data to the hard drive after the deletion its quite possible that you wrote over the email data file already. If you need further help, don't hesitate to contact me, I may beable to help you out with the recovery process if the damage is not already done. David Lessard Alexandria Electronics mrfixit@xxxxxxxxxxx (613) 525-4502 -----Original Message----- From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of repair1 Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 9:23 PM To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [TechAssist] how to restore deleted e-mail 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 ------------------------------------------ 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