The dbx folders with a (1) after them should be the ones you are using now.
If you put the cursor over the file, you will see the date it was created or
modified. If they are indeed the newer ones, you can delete the older ones.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bill" wrote in message
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Thanks Bruce,

BTW using another device for this reply - problem is on a w2k PC. Looking
at the dbx files I have some that are the same name but with (1) appended
to the filename. Which dbx should I use? Is there anyway to inspect the
dbx file?

Cheers.
Bill.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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Tools | Options | Maintenance | Clean Up Now is for newsgroups and should
not have changed your user created folder structure. What you describe
sounds more like you deleted Folders.dbx from the message store.

Consequences of deleting Folders.dbx:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm#deldbx

Although your file structure has changed, do you still have your e-mail
messages in their respective folders? The folders can be easily dragged
back where you want them, but you will have to resubscribe to newsgroups.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bill" wrote in message
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Hi All,

Pretty sure that all I did was choose Compact under
ToolsOptionsMaintenanceClean Up, but what has happened is that I have
lost all my folder structures under Inbox and my Newsgroups have changed
massively and now only list a few of what I had and are listing some of
what
I unsubscribed to ages ago.

Searching for *dbx identifies some of the groups that I have lost even
though they are not appearing in OE.

Basically its a mess!

What is most important to me really I suppose, is my saved email
messages,
which still seem to be there even though the folder structure has
changed.

Would be nice to know what I might have done, but is there any way of
easily
recovering the situation or is a couple of hours sorting it all out?

Cheers.
Bill.