Paula;

As many have told you...adding a newsgroup does NOT delete anything and
does NOT empty the trash. When OE does housecleaning, it compresses your
folders and moves old files to the deleted items folder, but does NOT delete
the files from that folder. If your husband was silly enough to store his
emails in the Deleted Items folder, and YOU emptied that folder, then the
files are gone. A normal person would not store his emails in the deleted
items folder.

Bobby

"paula" wrote in message
...
OK I made a new folder for storing mail. And no I didn't delete
anything..what to learn is that OE dumps the "deleted items folder"
as part of its add newsgroup program..it does take out the trash an MS
tech told me.
Thank you for helping..and I got some fantastic news about going
to windows\application data\Identities\Outlook Express folder and some
other
ideas as well under the responses...

"Jone Doe" wrote:


"paula" wrote in message
...
I followed the directions to sign up for the Outlook Express Newsgroup
(add newsgroup) on My husband's Outlook Express mail box and now
everything is gone from his folder "Deleted items" folder where he
was storing mail. Joining a Newsgroup does a "Clean Install" ..no
one mentioned this in the join up procedure. ANy way to retrieve
anything would be a happy ending.... Restore Points unsuccessful.
thank you Paula in Stockton ............ I am in trouble!

Yes indeed you are in trouble.

Setting up a newsgroup merely adds a newsgroup to the list. It does not
do
a clean install, or any kind of install. It merely adds a newsgroup.
Not
one mentioned it for just that reason, it doesn't happen. Therefore, you
must have done something, like perhaps the click the very handy button to
delete mail out of the deleted mail folder.

If you want to store email, make a new folder with a name like, perhaps
"Stored mail" to store it in. Why did you think they called it "Deleted
items.dbx"?


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