Disappearing Mail Messages

[Fred Chateau]

I'm using Outlook with a POP 3 mail server.

I opened it today and discovered all my Sent Items except the two most
recent messages were missing, and they are not in the Archive folder. I
believe I remember performing an Auto-Archive last night but I may be
mistaken. Any idea what went wrong?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP - Outlook]]

Double check autoarchive properties for the folder to make sure they are
what you think they are...

 

[Fred Chateau]

Double check autoarchive properties for the folder to make sure they are
what you think they are...

My Sent Items folder under Archive Folders has sent messages from 6 months
ago, but it doesn't have anything newer. My Sent Items folder under Personal
Folders has 3 messages in it since yesterday. So, there are 6 months worth
of messages missing.

I've never heard of Outlook doing anything like that before.

There wouldn't happen to be a backup of the Outlook.pst file anywhere, would
there?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP - Outlook]]

No, there's not usually a backup anywhere.

 

[cas2]

Outlook Express 6 -
As of 2 days ago, all of my inbox messages between mid March and mid-October
disappeared.
I have made no changes to OE, and done nothing else that I can figure out.
I'm the only one using my computer.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook Express 6 -
As of 2 days ago, all of my inbox messages between mid March and
mid-October
disappeared.
I have made no changes to OE, and done nothing else that I can figure out.
I'm the only one using my computer.

This isn't an Outlook Express newsgroup.