From: "Randy H" 

Well, I've tried deleting the newsgroups and the news server from OE, and
made sure the files went away-still has that behavior.

"Geo."  wrote in message
news:4126a874$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Some of the files for outlook express (including news groups) can get
> quite
> large and if OE crashes once it can corrupt one of them. Once it's
> corrupt, all
> kinds of strange things can happen.
>
> I'd run chkdsk first to make sure there are no disk issues then run
> maintenance/compress of all your OE folders.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Randy H"  wrote in message
> news:41269f6f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Hafta try that; but I'm not sure how that will fix things.
>>
>> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:4125cf91{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > You try running chkdsk /f /r and rebooting?
>> >
>> > Geo.
>> >
>> > "Randy H"  wrote in message
>> > news:41256568$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> And here's real wild twist: I tell OE to download new
messages and it
>> >> shows
>> >> me nothing.
>> >> I click on 'catch up' on that newgroup and now all of a sudden
>> >> messages
>> >> appear.
>> >>
>> >> "Randy H"  wrote in message
>> >> news:41242abc$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> > After a no-problem install of XP SP2 on my main
server, Outlook
>> >> > Express
>> >> > news is giving me some real odd behavior. It will
say that I got new
>> >> > messages for a newgroup, it will download them, then
when I go to
>> >> > look
>> >> > at
>> >> > the newsgroup it shows no messages.
>> >> >
>> >> > Even went to far as to delete the news group, the news server
>> >> > entries-same
>> >> > thing.
>> >> >
>> >> > Any ideas?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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