NoNoBadDog! wrote:
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,

Wrong.
It doesn't do this either. OE only moves items to the deleted items
folder when YOU tell it to.
When OE compacts (preferably manually, whilst offline) it just removes
wasted space, rather like defragging your hard drive, and makes this
space available again for use.


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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