Hello Bruce, I wish you a nice day!

 BC> Setup/Configure Mail Reader
 BC> Directories
 BC> Download Directory C:\REC\
 BC> Upload Directory   C:\SEND\    <<==-- .rep will be here 
 BC> Work Directory     C:\BW\WORK\
 BC> Reply Directory    C:\BW\REPLY\
 BC> Data Directory     C:\BW\DATA\

        My .rep goes into D:\UPLOAD. Where did I or you, get the
  different file name ? I have not changed mine, for sure. UPLOAD
  was generated by BW.
 
 BC> Don't even close BW in that case. 
 BC> Swap out, open another DOS window, and run UNDELETE on the SEND
 BC> folder.  After recovering the .rep file, move it to a temp folder, then
 BC> close BW and move the .rep file back to the SEND folder and start 
 BC> over again. 

        Hey ! This could have been a solution. I wish that I had
  thought of it. As Mark L. says, when closing a PRG the OS will
  close files and the Registry to the actual "profile" and maybe
  by closing BW, the 0ocs.rep was sent to the bit bucket.

        Thanks for trying.

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