Outlook Express mail vanishes

My email is supplied through Outlook Express. All was fine this morning. I opened up to check my email later on and found a totally blank page except for the default categories found on a new computer. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone have any idea what happened to my mail page? More important, can I retrieve it, or is it gone forever?
iBook Mac OS 9.2.x
iBook Mac OS 9.2.x

Hi, maryliz -
There are a couple of things that could explain that, and from which recovery is relatively easy to do.
The first is that somehow a second account (identity) got created, and Outlook Express has entered that one. Check in OE's menus (I don't recall which one it is) for an item Identities... - select it and see if there is more than one choice. If there is more than one, check the others to see if your email reappears,
The second is a bit more complicated.
Older versions of OE kept the email archives files in a folder named Main Identity in a folder named Identities in the program's folder. Newer versions of OE keep those files in a similar folder located here - (hard drive) >> Documents >> Microsoft User Data >> Identities >> Main Identity.
If your current version of OE is one that had been updated from an older version, OE may have kept using the Main Identity folder in the program folder; and then, for reasons unknown, decided to create and use one in the Documents folder.
Check to see if there is a Main Identity folder at both locations; and, if so, whether the one in Documents is about 144K in size, and the one in the program's folder much larger. If so, copy the entire contents of the Main Identity folder in the program folder to the one in the Documents folder - you will need to okay the replacement of same-name files.
Do the preceding with OE not running. If it works, you should be able to access your old mail as soon as the copying is finished and you run OE.

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If your current version of OE is one that had been updated from an older version, OE may have kept using the Main Identity folder in the program folder; and then, for reasons unknown, decided to create and use one in the Documents folder.
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