Mail folder structure can eaily be placed back to what it was by a simple
drag and drop of a folder to another folder to create a subfolder.

News folders (groups) can not be done in a similar manner.

And yes, if the problem persisted in an older backup, it would also be there
when you restored that backup.



"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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About a month ago, OE began crashing when I accessed a certain newsgroup.
It was a group I hadn't been reading much, so I unsubscribed and the
problem was gone. Or, more correctly, it was lurking, waiting for the next
newsgroup. The problem's back today. The crash occurs at two different
times: When I manually click on a certain NG, or when OE scans all groups
for new messages.

Incidentally, I never have more than 50-75 messages in the Inbox, and I
allow auto compacting to do its thing when it wants to.

At http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/, I've read that deleting folders.dbx
will cause the loss of my folder tree structure. I assume this means that
all messages will be blended into one gigantic list. Not good. I'm
wondering if the steps shown below might work. I have twice-daily backups
I can restore, in case of trouble. And, I'm referring below to mail.
Newsgroups aren't that much of a concern at the moment.

1) Delete folders.dbx

2) Start OE and manually delete all messages.

3) Import messages from the latest backup.

The import would get its data from a backup folder which contains the
older, and possibly corrupt folders.dbx. Will I simply be importing the
same problem I began with?