I lost 16 months of emails when I click "Compact Messages" in Outlook Express - Help!

I searched on the internet and made the following to address my problem-

. Working offline with Outlook Express

. Open Recycle Bin on the Windows desktop

. The '.bak' file located I wanted back

. Clicked on the file '.bak' with the right button of the mouse

. Restore selected in the menu

BUT now, I can't locate the file in Windows Explorer and open the folder that's in.  How can I find the file - I did a search for all files and folders, and anything else that is listed, but it comes up with zero results.  HELP PLEASE

In addition to Bruce's response, go to tools | Options | Advanced | Maintenance | Storage folder and that will show you the location of the message store.  Copy to this location.

Then go to control panel | Folder options | View and uncheck Hide extensions of known file types and check the option to show hidden files and folders (the message store and its files are hidden).

Then, open Windows Explorer and paste it into the location you copied into the address bar and then you should find the dbx and bak files.

Then see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1 to re-import the bak file in OE.  If it doesn't matter, then you may need my DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) program to retrieve messages.

Steve

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