You can make a SCRATCH folder in Outlook express which will be in the same place as the inbox, sent, etc. click on view and then click on GO TO FOLDER. At the top of the drop down box click at the top to unexpand the list then at the right you should see NEW FOLDER. Click on this and then enter a name for the folder. Usa SCRATCH if you want to. Go back to the inbox and then when you want to MOVE or COPY an email to the SCRATCH folder right click on the email title and them choose move or copy. when you choose the SCRATCH folder name and click OK it will be transferred to that folder. This allows you to SAVE emails if this is what you waht to do. HTH John

IE7/OE here is set to send/recieve in text only and I would never ever send someone nor accept any pics or sound for security reasons but... Out of curiosity I sent both in an email as attachments no problem to a hotmail account. Both were received fine there.

As a user stuck on an antique DUN I recognize your concern regarding your e-mail. It is my guess you are not speaking of your e-mail in general, but rather e-mails that are graphic intensive or have photo attachments. Since you are on a DUN it will make little difference if you convert to a web-based account or not. Your system will still have to download the e-mails and their attachments into a temporary file for the web-based client to open them. There are a couple of things that you can do, but I am going to wait to see if my assumption is correct. I do as Gene reports and automatically purge my deleted e-mail upon closing Windows Mail, and previously OE. However, if you decide to enroll in this option once the e-mail is deleted it is gone forever. If Windows ever wants to compact your e-mail allow it to do so. DA

I have just loaded Outlook on a new notebook, Outlook 2002. I've used this version of Outlook since 2002, but alas that notebook did a big crash. The good news, I had all but the last two days of message folders on a back up drive, in a folder called "Exchange". Now, on my old XP home there was a folder called "OutlookFolders" which had "Exchange" and other details in it. So, all I need to do is copy the back-up data into the new computer's "OutlookFolders", but I can't find them, nor can the XP search. I do have folders maked to shoe hidden. Any help would be appreciated.