Hello Carey..Well your tech support told me that adding a newsgroup in O.E.
does set up a daily trash-take out..It does empty the "deleted items folder" and they said it does it as a regular part of it's setup. DO you know about this?

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

Joining an Outlook Express newsgroup does not perform a "clean install"
and does not delete any files. You must have inadvertently emptied the
"Deleted Items" folder. Storing email in the "Deleted Items" folders is
not a very prudent thing to do. Sorry, those files are gone.

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"paula" wrote in message:
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|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!