messages missing from Sent box

[Continuing the crosspost to OE MAC newsgroup]

1a. Move any messages that you want to keep out of Sent Items and Deleted
Items folders and into other local OE folders you've created for archiving
(saving) such messages.

1b. Move 99% of your messages in your Inbox folder to other local OE
folders, too.

2. Write down the location of your identity's store
(http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#storemain).

3. Close OE.

4. In Windows Explorer, navigate to your store folder, find & delete the
files Outbox.dbx, Sent Items.dbx, and Deleted Items.dbx.

To avoid such problems in the future:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting [not available in SP2] and frequently
perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm

- WinXP SP2 only: Do not shut down your machine while Windows is
automatically compacting your message store.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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> paulzak wrote:
>> I hope someone has an insight for me. All sent items starting 1/10/08
>> gone
>> missing from my Sent box in Outlook Express 6.0. I'm running Windows XP
>> Home edition.
>> Some of them are still in my Web mail account's sent box. In OE I have
>> "Save copy of sent items" option enabled. Yet new messages I'm sending
>> now
>> do not get copired to Sent box anymore. I've been successfully using this
>> set up for years. What went wrong? Can I get my messages back?
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