Restoring an Outlook Express .DBX  file from backup
 http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/oerestore.txt

I'm going with the following as the least disruptive as I only
need to reset the last used count for the one newsgroup,
and, of course, not lose my previous content.

 1) Outlook Express -- Offline (important to be offline)
 2) xcopy   *programming*.dbx   to another directory
 3) delete the *programming* folder with Unsubscribe on
     right-click
 4) Resubscribe  to *programming*
 5) xcopy *programming*.dbx back to original location
     replacing folder  Outlook Express created
 6) Outlook Express -- back to Online

To help facilitate this I have changed/added Newsgroup Rules
that  limit incoming to the last 30 days  and something I didn't
realize was there to mark for download everything accepted.
Complete set of Newsgroup rules I use will be at
    http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/oenews.txt
to go with my  oe6.htm  webpage for oe5 and oe6 for Excel.
Problems would be within the last 30 days.


Backup information may be found in  backup.htm  and oe6.htm,
basically:  Backup your Outlook Express Data files (.dbx) and your 
  Windows Address Book (.wab).  You can usually figure out how 
  to restore data when you need it, but you must have the backup.