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It is happening with a couple of my users recently. The inbox in Outlook 2000 indicates that there are e.g. 90 messages in the Inbox, in fact there is a different number in there e.g. 17. I have tried to use the Inbox Repair Tool, but no result. Cananyone suggest anything else !? This has happened on W2K pro and WinNT4 wks.
Thank you

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by mtberjim

scroll down the inbox and see if they have old unopened mail? u might be chasing your tail.
Hope it helps, JimD.

by lordinfidel

You want to look at their views.

It is probably set to the last 7 days or something like that.

View/Current View

by alee100

I was forwarded a contact that was marked private. This gave a similiar situation, not showing in Inbox, but Inbox showing 1 message. I had to create a Rule to delete all messages from the sender to get rid of the invisible message. Don't know ifyour situation is similar.

by mrjay67

Ive seen this on rare occasion and it seems like i had to create a new .pst(mailboxfile). Sometimes the file gets corrupted especially if they get over a certain size but its usually over 1 gig or more. If your users store their info in .pst or .ost files check them. I would back those files up and redo their email to make sure its clean. Just make sure you get all of the files from their profile folder. This may not be your exact situation but its what i did and worked for mine. You shouldnt have to reload outlook just the accounts. Remove them and add them back. If it doesnt work then you might try a full reload.
Sometimes when those files are saved several times with those odd errors and the repair tool doesnt catch them. Also you might see if there are other odd problems going on with the system. It may be the users full profile folder e.g.:(W2K) \Documents and Settings\\. I had one instance where the profile was corupted and was causing odd problems with office.Backup any possible data and remove the users profile(done under admin). YOu can right click my computer select properties and should be able to locate user profiles there.

Hope this helps to shed more light

Jason

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