Help, please: to Import an old OE folder to O2000

[Mark246]

Help, Please...

Years ago, I used Outlook Express. I saved/exported all of the
folders, just in case. Now, I use Outlook 2000 SP3.

I need to import the "Sent Items" folder from the old OE .DBX file.

I have all of the old .DBX files on a backup CD.
I copied the "Sent Items.dbx" file to the only "C:\Docs & Settings\Me
\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{WierdText}\MS\OE\" folder
that currently exists.

In O2000, I tried...
File
Import & Export
Import Internet mail & addresses
Outlook 4 & 5 (Mail only, no Addresses or Rules)
Finish
and it replied "1 of 1 messages imported".
A silly message showed up in the Inbox... welcoming me to Outlook
Express. !

Help? ! ?

Thanks Very Much, in advance.

Mark246

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook will only import it if Outlook Express is using it. You might want
to check with the Outlook Express newsgroups on how to get that to happen.

 

[Mark246]

Vince,... Say, what?!
I'm not now using OE at all. I wouldn't want to start up OE... I
don't know what it would mess up. Thus, I think OE groups couldn't
help.

Diamontina,... Very cool name.
Import... From a "store source" ? Where's that option in O2000?

In O2000,...
I tried...
File
Import & Export
Import... Internet mail & addresses
and I couldn't point to any certain file.

I tried...
File
Import... From another Program or File
Personal Folder file (.pst)
and it said that the .dbx file is not a .pst file. Duh! Wouldn't
work.

I tried...
File
Import... From another Program or File
dBase
and it wouldn't recognize my .dbx file.

Help, Please?

Thanks.

Mark246

 

[Brian Tillman]

Vince,... Say, what?!
I'm not now using OE at all. I wouldn't want to start up OE... I
don't know what it would mess up. Thus, I think OE groups couldn't
help.

In order to import OE messages into Outlook, they MUST be available in OE
first. Outlook cannot directly import an OE data file. It comminicates
directly with OE in order to import its messages.

You wouldn't want to import OE messages into Outlook anyway. Importing
using Outlook changes the received date to the date and time of import and
does not preserve the original received time stamp. You can preserve the
time stamp if you export to Outlook from within OE.