Joe,

I'm wondering if it's related to a recent OE patch. Last week, my OE did its
automatic compression of files, and afterwards I noticed all the original
*.DBX file, now renamed to *.BAK in my Recycle bin. That never happened
before.

Alan

"Joe Ogiba" <jogiba@patmedia.net> wrote in message
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> 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
>