Importing Back Up - Outlook Express

[Chris E]

I made a back up of my messages, address books and
accounts onto a CDRom because I had to completely reload
my system.

I have managed to import the address books & accounts, but
can't get the messages back. I get a message saying
that "no messages found in this folder" when I run through
the import process. I can see the files through explorer -
all with .dbx extensions - but I can't seem to get to
them. Any ideas how I can recover these - even in text
format would be helpful?

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

I made a back up of my messages, address books and
accounts onto a CDRom because I had to completely reload
my system.

I have managed to import the address books & accounts, but
can't get the messages back. I get a message saying
that "no messages found in this folder" when I run through
the import process. I can see the files through explorer -
all with .dbx extensions - but I can't seem to get to
them. Any ideas how I can recover these - even in text
format would be helpful?

One, did you copy the file called Folders.dbx?
Two - copy the files to a new folder on your HDD and remove the Read-Only
attribute. Then do the import.

BTW, this newsgroup is for support of Outlook
97/98/2000/2002/2003(beta) from the Office suite of products. Outlook
Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number. Good luck!

 

[Roady]

Make sure the file property is not set to "Read Only"

Please note that this is an Microsoft Office Outlook forum.

Outlook Express is family of Internet Explorer and Outlook of the Office
family.

Here is the link for the right forum
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer

Good Luck!

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