yeah i did that - why should i un-hide those folders now?
btw it doesn't work - i just copy n pasted some email (dbx) boxes, backups, and created those folders with the same name in OE and it doesn't work.
This is the software that did the trick, instructions were confusing, it wouldn't work for anything but the mailboxes that come pre-constructed when u install IE/OE (inbox, outbox. sent etc) - it wouldn't work with the email boxes i added i.e. Personal, Projects, - it only worked after I restored Folders.dbx from the backup.
It's free and it works,
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/
bookmark it cuz eventually you will need it.
now i have to figure out how to delete 2 GIGs of email, computer freezes when i try to delete too much at once and i don't have the paitience to do 100 or whatever at a time.