Hello Bruce, I wish you a nice day!

 BC> Since old .rep files are deleted and overwritten,

        In this instance, it was a very recently lost (deleted)
  file. I would have presumed that it would still be somewhere to
  look at and regain. Not the case here. I wonder where it went ?

 BC> I use the Reply Packet Manager to View & Manage Outbound Mail.
 BC> Then I save each message and reply into the default text file. 

        I was getting back into BW when this took place. You know
  where it says you have four choices, I must have hit None and
  all the .reps were gone.

 BC> For later reference, I can always copy & paste from that text file. 

        Yes, that would work but a bit tedious. I am too impetuous
  for this procedure.  My loss as I mentioned.

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