this can sometimes happen to mail spool files as well - typically if you can figure out the corrupted email, you can open the spool file in a text editor, cut out the offending headers and mail, and you're set. i don't know the format of the aol mail file, though. mail spool files are plaintext. --alan On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 04:48 PM, Lacorona at aol.com wrote: > If anyone has any brilliant ideas about how to extract the info from a > 48MB > 'aol filinng cabinet' file please let me know. It absolutely will not > open in > aol, and it of course is in aol "email sent" and "email rec'd" format. > I did > open a tiny file cab (also corrupted) attached to another filing > cabinet on > same account by doing "insert file" into MS Word. Alot of junk, but the > messages in between the junk are readable. The prob with the 48 MB > file is I > think is too big to insert into a MS doc. Any ideas?