Hi Debbie, Yes, deleting the .toc file and reopening Eudora did make the index appear again. Never realized that would work. All the messages are not marked unread any more, but that's fine. Now to find out how to make the top box larger. Hope someone else can answer that one. Thanks, Patty At 07:30 PM 7/4/01 -0500, you wrote: Patty, >It sounds like you have corrupted TOC files. Go to where your mailboxes >are stored: The default is: C:\Program Files\Qualcom\Eudora >Then for the mailboxes that you can't open delete the .toc file. DO NOT >delete anything that ends in .mbx. Those files are where your actual >messages are stored. > >The .toc files are just a table of contents of what is in the >corresponding .mbx file. By deleting that, Eudora will just replace >it. But if you do have a corrupted .toc file, it should stop. > >Try that and let us know if it works. And by the way, you can open up any >mailbox (the .mbx files) with your Notepad text editor. > >And as to the window size, I'm afraid, I've never used the preview pane >(with any email program I've ever used), so I can't answer that >question. But someone here should know the answers. > >HTH, >Debbie