Thank you very much.

I compact the folders daily and this has been driving me nuts
trying to figure out what I had done

dom.


"Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote in message
news:54488E77-1515-4456-AD82-737D2E93EEE5@microsoft.com...
| Its is due to a new update for OE. It has nothing to do with Vista.
|
| See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2 Those are backups of the OE folders that
| are saved to the bin prior to compaction so if compaction fails, you don't
| lose your messages as many have.
|
| steve
|
| "Joe Ogiba" <jogiba@patmedia.net> wrote in message
| news:OKB3hD1OHHA.4724@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
| > My XP Recycle Bin has 27 BAK files from Outlook Express up to 12mb each
| > and was wondering why they are there. I think it might be done after
| > Outlook Express does an automatc compress to save space but this is the
| > first time I seen the files in my Recycle Bin. I dual boot XP and Vista
| > RC2. Here is a screenshot of my desktop showing the files.
| > http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21...RecycleBin.jpg
| >
|