Outlook Express and folder problem

Q: Somehow a friend of mine has managed to detach any sub folders she created within the inbox. All her notes and other items were contained within these folders. I looked into the location of where her outlook express DBX files are normally kept and all main folders including sub folder references are in there. Whenever you go into the inbox folder list within OE though, no sub folders are found. Is there a way I can repair
this so that the inbox will show references to these sub folders as it did before in the tree list.

Ans: Your folders.dbx file is corrupted. To recreate it, do the following. Save somewere all the dbx files you don't see anymore as OE folders (or rename them if you are lacking of disk space. (with OE shut down) Then open OE and create the missing folders, using the exact name of the dbx files you dont see. In each of these folders, copy one email to activate the folder. (drag, holding Ctrl for ex) Close OE and put your saved dbx files back in OE folder, replacing the new ones with same names that has been created while you were creating your folders.