This is the second time that I had this problem with email. This morning I was closing outlook express and a prompt came up notifying me that it can be compressed. I clicked on ok and everything went downhill from there. When I opened my email later in the morning I had several hundred messages to download and all of my sub folders were gone. When all of the messages were downloaded, back a few weeks, I went to other identities that had no problems. Only mine the main identity was trashed. I tried to recover using o e backup with no good results. I had no choice to go to my ghost backup from 3 days ago and recover the entire system losing a few days of email and two product updates. This is the second time in the past 3 months that this happened. Any ideas what is causing the problem and how to prevent it in the future. For now I will not allow the system to compress the files until I first make a ghost backup. Lenny http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/
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