I compacted my folders in outlook express and lost emails that were in the
inbox from 7-5-08 back to 9-5-07. All others remain. Can I recover. Why
did only these disappear?

"Outlook Express is family of Internet Explorer and Outlook of the Office
family." - Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]

Differences between Outlook and Outlook Express
http://ask.support.microsoft.com/kb/257824/EN-US/

A good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://www.insideoe.com/

For Outlook Express (OE) support:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...xpress.general

Nikki Peterson

"redboy1" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I compacted my folders in outlook express and lost emails that were in the
> inbox from 7-5-08 back to 9-5-07. All others remain. Can I recover. Why
> did only these disappear?