Bruce
Mon Mar 24 19:06:34 PDT 2008
Copy the CD to your HDD. Open the folder and Select All to highlight all the
dbx files. Right click and remove the Read Only attribute from each dbx
file. Close the folder.
In OE: File | Import | Messages. Select Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and
Import from an OE6 Store Directory and point to where you saved it. You can
import all folders, or individual ones.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA
"Paul Beckwith" <paul_beckwith@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
news:uVi23jhjIHA.5088@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi Bruce et al,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I actually do not have my old hard drive any longer
> and had not made an official backup of these files but someone saved all
> of dbx files on a CD for mefrom that old drive and these include all of my
> local folders that I named as well as Inbox, Folders, Deleted Items,
> Contacts (dbx not wab file), Norton AntiSpam Folder, Outbox, Local
> Folders, etc. I don't know how to "import" these files to my Outlook
> Express on my new computer (and my wife is going to kill as this was her
> personal email and contacts book). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Paul
>
> "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:OjOxU$gjIHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> If you did not include Folders.dbx in the backup the import will fail and
>> need to be done manually.
>>
>> Backup & Restore:
>>
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/
>>
>> How to restore individual dbx files:
>>
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1
>> --
>> Bruce Hagen
>> MS-MVP Outlook Express
>> Imperial Beach, CA
>>
>>
>> "Paul Beckwith" <paul_beckwith@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
>> news:%237gmS7gjIHA.5412@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have changed computers and I thought I was able to save all of the dbx
>>> files from my old hard disk but I can't seem to find a way to import
>>> these dbx files (inbox.dbx, personal.dbx, etc. dbx) into my new
>>> computer's Outlook Express Local or into the Inbox folder files for easy
>>> access... is there a way to do this?
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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