Denise, try going to find files, on your main windows program, put in whichever file you are looking for, Inbox, outbox, deleted, or sent. There will be at least two files for each, open the mbx file. Hope this works. Diane -----Original Message----- From: Denise (Kirkland) Smiley <MDSMILEY@prodigy.net> To: GADECATU-L@rootsweb.com <GADECATU-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 9:42 PM Subject: [GADECATU-L] Help Email Problems >Hi Everyone, > >This morning my email program crashed and I lost over 3,000 saved messages. > >If you have sent something to me prior to late this afternoon, please >re-email me as I no longer am able to read emails that I had saved. > >If there is anyone on this list that knows about recovering emails files, >please email me. I do have the files that the emails are in, but I can't >figure out how to bring them back up into the program so that I am able to >read them. I use Outlook Express. > >Thanks. > >Denise (Kirkland) Smiley >