1: Is this the machine in question? (XP/SP2).

2: Was he in Windows Explorer at the time and try to move the Outlook
Express message store folder, or the individual dbx files within the message
store?

You can Right Click and Send To, or drag the folder or files and then select
Move, but I am not seeing a Move To option. Please elaborate so I can give
you the best advice.

Enable Hidden Files and Folders:

In WinXP, Win2K & Win2K3, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default
marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows Explorer, you must enable
Show Hidden Files and Folders under Start | Control Panel | Folder Options
Icon | View, or in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder Options | View.

Now do a search for

*.dbx

What do you find?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"BKent1" wrote in message
...
My young son thought he could move the local folders file of OUTLOOK
EXPRESS 6 (all my folders)
into a new folder he creaed outside of Outlook express.

When he clicked on MOVE TO, instead of all the LOCAL folders showing up in
the new file,
the LOCAL FOLDERS (and all the 109 subfolders) disspeared .

8 years of business and personal files!!!

WOULD ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETREIVE THE LOCAL FOLDER FILE???

KEN B in L.A.