I have outlook express 6 for a email client. I was getting reminded to compact my email messages every one in a while so I said yes and let it compact my messages ... now I don't see any email other than new email that has come in since I compacted the mail. But I did find some .bak files in the recycle bin ... How do I recover them? Does anyone know how to get my messages back? ... Please, help!

Spildit, after that, how does OP merge the new emails from the other saved "boxes" into the recovered boxes?
Maybe reSend them to himself just before recovery process, not retrieving same until after the recovery process?

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"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin revisited

better to get someone that knows outlook and the way the data files work to do it. If you stuff it up you will either wipe them out or overwrite a default mail spool or something.

or just save them somewhere, re-setup the account and import them. after they are imported just move the messages to the folders you want. re-sending them is not the way.