my outlook 2007 is placing .bak files in recycle bin--whats this?

[paffcon]

Are these backup files or do I have settings that are allowing outlook to
auto delete after a certain amount of time...I do not understand what is
happening--Ihave files in recycle bin, but I can go into outlook and the
files are not deleted--at least not completely...the dates on the deleted
files are not same as exidting files...for instance, 'file A' in recycle bin
will have a date like 12/16/2008--and be a pretty large file--too big to be a
single contact bus card or a single email--large enough to be a complete file
of the contact...but when i go into outlook 2007 it appears as if 'file A' is
there, but there is nothing in the file with a date of 12/16/2008...all of
the files in the recycle bin have .bak in them and are from outlook 2007...

 

[Gordon]

Are these backup files or do I have settings that are allowing outlook to
auto delete after a certain amount of time...I do not understand what is
happening--Ihave files in recycle bin, but I can go into outlook and the
files are not deleted--at least not completely...the dates on the deleted
files are not same as exidting files...for instance, 'file A' in recycle
bin
will have a date like 12/16/2008--and be a pretty large file--too big to
be a
single contact bus card or a single email--large enough to be a complete
file
of the contact...but when i go into outlook 2007 it appears as if 'file A'
is
there, but there is nothing in the file with a date of 12/16/2008...all of
the files in the recycle bin have .bak in them and are from outlook
2007...

No they're not - they are from Outlook EXPRESS. When Outlook EXPRESS does a
compact folders, it places a copy of each mail folder (with a .bak
extension) into the recycle bin.

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook
97/98/2000/2002/2003/2007 from the Office suite of products. Outlook
Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...px?dg=microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general
Good luck!

 

[DL]

Outlook does not place any files in the windows recycle bin, nor does it
create .bak files.
If however you have a third party addin these may do so

Selecting the file in the recycle bin should show where it was previously
stored, or came from

 

[Peter Foldes]

They are Outlook Express dbx files which were created when your Outlook Express
compacted. You can safely delete them. It was done as a backup when compacting would
mess up the Outlook Express dbx files