From: "Geo." 

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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