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Outlook Express Problem
On my Win98 system with Outlook Express 6, I restored a 2-month old
drive image to a new hard drive. I copied today's OE Inbox and other OE folders to the hard drive. I'm trying to bring my OE up to day. When I copy and paste the Inbox and other new email folders to Windows/Application/Identities/Microsoft/Outlook Express, they don't show up in the OE program. I tried to import the messages with OE's File/Import/File Store, but when I browse to the folder with the .dbx messages, it always says there are "no messages in that folder". I know there's a way to do this. Any suggestions? Thanks! Scott |
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Outlook Express Problem
1. You probably didn't copy the files to the right Identity. You can find
out where your current message store is by going to the Tools menu in OE, OptionsMaintenance tab, Store Folder button. There, you can highlight that long string, then press Ctrl-C, then go to the StartRun box, use Ctrl-V to Paste in the path and press OK. That will open the folder. You can then drop those DBX files into that folder (Copy, don't Move -- don't want to lose the files in case something goes wrong.) Be sure to do this with OE closed. 2. The reason the Import didn't work is probably that you didn't have ALL of the DBX files in the folder you tried to import from. FOLDERS.DBX also has to be present. For future reference, you might want to check out OEBackup. See http://www.oehelp.com/ Also, for future assistance with OE issues, please use the OE newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...xpress.general -- Gary S. Terhune "Scott" wrote in message ... On my Win98 system with Outlook Express 6, I restored a 2-month old drive image to a new hard drive. I copied today's OE Inbox and other OE folders to the hard drive. I'm trying to bring my OE up to day. When I copy and paste the Inbox and other new email folders to Windows/Application/Identities/Microsoft/Outlook Express, they don't show up in the OE program. I tried to import the messages with OE's File/Import/File Store, but when I browse to the folder with the .dbx messages, it always says there are "no messages in that folder". I know there's a way to do this. Any suggestions? Thanks! Scott |
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