It's SOMEWHERE--you just haven't located it. It may be in limbo someplace but this is the very reason posts in the recycle bin don't actually get DELETED -- so that any missing posts can be located eventually. Joan In a message dated 8/26/2009 2:18:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, fiona.j.hall@btopenworld.com writes: I had a 'funny' too this morning.... I tried to move a message to another board and it wouldn't go (found out the board didn't exist!) anyway the message has now vanished from my board (I didn't delete it) and it isn't in the recycle bin either Fiona