Hi All Every so often when I close Outlook Express I get a dialogue coming up advising me that to free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages, and asking if I would like to do this. The options (as far as I can remember) are OK and Cancel. I normally choose OK, and I can see a dialogue on screen telling me that messages are being compacted - but this morning I chose Cancel. When I re-opened Outlook Express later on, everything in my Inbox had disappeared!! A similar thing happened with lots of my e-mail messages disappearing when I re-opened Outlook Express some time ago, and I didn't know the reason why. I now think that it's probably to do with the same thing. Can anyone shed any light on this? Whn I look in Windows Explorer at my e-mail folder, I can see that ther is my usual Inbox, then an Inbox (1). Any ideas gratefully received!!! Theresa Hodge theresa.hodge@xxxxxxxxx