Re: Sent Items still MIA, tried importing from .dbx

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Thank you for that suggestion as a possible explanation, but would not have
happened here.

For one thing, indeed I do get that warning prompt on occasion and make VERY
certain that a particular message, not a folder, is selected for deletion.

Secondly, and particularly for this sub-folder, which would never have any
e-mails except for those I specifically physically move into it, I would
never choose to delete any. I have sent very few e-mails via OE in a long
time, so it's unlikely I would have been deleting any "Sent Items" to begin
with, only viewing that folder, and occasionally going back to transfer some
e-mails into the subfolder.

Thus, a mistake of accidently selecting that entire folder rather than
individual e-mails for deletion would not have happened. And certainly not
within the past few weeks - when that folder was last seen, and the entire
Sent Items content was still completely intact.





"Michael Santovec" wrote:

User created folders can easily be deleted. Too easily.

If focus is on the folder list rather than the message list and you
press delete, the folder gets deleted rather than just the message. You
do get an Are you sure dialog, but many people respond to that too
quickly.

When a user folder is deleted, it becomes a subfolder of the Deleted
Items folder. If you then empty the deleted items folder, or have the
option to automatically empty it on closing (Tools, Options,
Maintenance) then the folder is permanently deleted at that time.

Assuming that you don't have any manual backups, then you MIGHT get back
SOME of your messages using a recovery utility, such as
DBXpress - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"T" <T@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D9D81EC3-25ED-4EDB-8D82-2897DB8909C1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am still hoping for some response regarding:

I was trying to explain that a subfolder I created "under"
the main Sent Items is not only missing in OE, **there IS no
corresponding
dbx folder in the store**!

So, for [PA Bear's] step 4b, I CANNOT drag the BlahBlahBlah Sent .dbx,
because it is not where all the other dbx's are, and its whereabouts
completely unknown.

And that's confusing me if User Created folders were supposed to be
safe(r)
and the location did not matter. (All my other subfolders appear to be
present and accounted for. This, (and I'm fairly sure I had another
Sent
subfolder as well) was "under" Sent Items, as these contained e-mails
sent
from my A1 e-mail address, as opposed to the e-mails sent from the
address
which corresponds to the primary Inbox).



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