It is extremely easy to delete an entire folder in MSOE.

If you highlight a folder (instead of a message) and hit the delete key
the folder will be gone.  (I generally turn "ON" all confirmations, to try to
help prevent this sort of thing...)

It may (or may not) go to the OE trash folder, (depending on your version
and settings), but if you have searched the HD correctly, (including subfolders),
I believe it may be gone for good...
(You are using "find/search" to search, correct?)

To see if you searched correctly, I suggest you search for some OTHER
mailbox folder with a unique name. (Make a new "odd" one if you have to...)

And good luck...                                    Rick Glazier

From: "Ron & Pat" <[log in to unmask]>

>I have Windows 98se and Outlook Express.  Under Local Folders in OE I have a
>number of folders set up under Message Rules.  Today I was shocked to
>discover that a message in my In Box should have been in a folder set up for
>those e-mails, however, the folder was no longer there.  I have no idea how
>it was "deleted", if that is what happened.  Presumably somewhere in my
>computer the folder still resides but I haven't a clue how to find it or to
>restore it.  I tried the "Find Files or Folders" but it doesn't seem to
>relate to Outlook Express.

>Does anyone have a possible explanation for its disappearance as well as how
>to retrieve it back to where it belongs???

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