Lost contents of Outlook Express "In-box"

[crazyray]

I'm running Win2K. All has been fine, but I opened Outlook Express today and got an error message. When I tried it again the "In-box" was empty!

My anti-virus is up-to-date and I ran a full test without problems. Any suggestions on locating the lost e-mail messages?

[osprey4]

Tried running IE repair? Control panel, Add/remove, Internet Explorer, there will be a repair option.

[Steve R Jones]

The dbx files sometimes get corrupted. Might look in:

C:\Documents and Settings\USER NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\Microsoft\Outlook Express

Should be able to see the new and the old inbox.dbx files. Rename the new to inbox.xxx and rename the old/original to inbox.dbx

[crazyray]

Steve! I tried the string you suggested but discovered that mine has a set of bracketed numbers and letters inserted like this:

...\Identities\{2B371540-7E3E-11D5-B6A6-95D869A75D98}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\

I am unable to locate any files with the "dbx" extension using the search feature, nor do I locate anything by searching for "inbox".

I appreciate the help. Any more suggestions?