Microsoft Outlook Express twice over the last year I lost about a month or 2 woth of emails. Why?

Question

I have many emails in my inbox 3000 and in my sent mail 4000. I save all emails. Help Emials lost were in my in box.

I archive my emails when my boxes get big

Answer 1

I gave up on Outlook Express a couple of years ago. Use Outlook, all information is stored in a .pst file that can be backed up on a regular basis. OE will export email emails and addresses so all your records will be maintained.

Answer 2

Sometimes my outlook will have a pop up message saying that it will begin compacting my emails to free up space on my computer...may it did that with yours

Answer 3

It may be doing "automatic archiving" by itself. It can be set to do that.