Somebody please tell me that I have not just gotten into a big mess! My standard practice: Logged onto Windows 2000 under my usual non-adminstrator account name, I have the Outlook Express message stores folder pointing to a folder on drive F. I do not use OE multiple identities. But today, I needed to log onto Windows as Administrator to install something, and I wanted to grab something from an e-mail message while logged on that way, so I started OE and re-pointed the message stores folder from its default location to the special folder location that I have set. When I have done this before, as after reinstalling Windows and setting up OE on a replacement computer, OE has *ALWAYS* asked me if I would like to use the message stores folders that it already finds in the folder I am choosing. So this time, instead of taking a minute to copy all the message files to a safe location, I simply set the new folder location, and it said OK and the damage was done!!! Norton's DOS Unerase utility indicates that, at least with regard to the main default message folder files (Inbox, Outbox, Sent, Drafts, Deleted), it can't do anything because the new files are already using those spaces. It indicates that I might get at least partial results with a manual recovery. (I believe they are referring to their Disk Editor tool, but that would be the beginning of a rather horrific exercise, I believe). Since my original mail setup involves hundreds of sub-folders, any manual procedure is going to be ghastly. Anyone know of a way that I can simply roll back the last changes to file and folder structures? With a hope and a prayer, John the Appalled