Geek Wanted

26/01/11 -- Does anyone know how to restore an Outlook Express email inbox that OE helpfully "compacted" for me this morning? Except compacted seems to mean packed up away and hidden somewhere as all my incoming emails between October and now are no longer in my inbox. Thanks, in hopeful anticipation.

PS I've tried a system restore to no avail. Also there isn't a .dbx or .bak file in my recycle bin (or anywhere else on my PC) created recently. It seems that the compaction process failed midway through.