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steve

"Alan" <somewhere@nospam.pew> wrote in message
news:12r02llev0qel86@corp.supernews.com...
> 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
> 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
>>
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