Hi and thank you both for your help.

I am happy to delete other software, have already done AVG, but it still shows on my programmes menu!

Just now though I would like to rescue emails if I can.

A search for “sent items.dbx” produced one result only (on C drive) with 273,329kb, which is I assume what it has since Avast seized the other 500 or so emails.

In the Avast chest the size of the sent items.dbx file is shown as 279888780 - I assume the balance I am looking for.

Please excuse my seeming ignorance, but I do not understand how to check the file content before opening outlook.

Thanks for helping. Leslie