Lost all messages in inbox

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Alex M

All of a sudden all of my messages were gone! After thinking about it
for awhile, I searched for my Inbox.dbx file. Found it but also found a
new file called
inbox (1).dbx. Deleted that file hoping to force the program to go back
to the original. Start O.E. again and still no messages. Look again an
it has created the new file again. Deleted it and this time renamed the
old large file as inbox (1).dbx. All the messages are back. Question is,
why did it do that? Is there a limit on the number of past message you
can have in the file? Since I renamed it, it has grown larger than it
was before the problem and it still works.

Thanks for any help you can give me.
Alex
 
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