I have been copying from the individual dbx filex from origin machine store
folder to the cd, then after creating a similarly named file on the
destination machine, then opening it, then deleting the dbx file created by
opening it, I have been copying the dbx file on the cd from the cd to the
destination machine store folder.

Have I missed the "importing" step or is the "importing" step copying from
the cd to the store folder?

When I have gone back to the cd and hilighted a dbx file and checked
properties and tried to unclick "read only" and click it back to "archive" it
tells me I can't do it.

"PA Bear" wrote:

WYSIWYG. After /copying/ the DBX files to the HDD of the target machine,
remove the Read Only attribute before importing the files.

References:

Backup & Restore OE Data
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

OE Files & Settings
http://www.insideoe.com/files/index.htm

OE Registry Keys
http://www.insideoe.com/files/regkeys.htm

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (last paragraph)

Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)


Visitor wrote:
Hi

I have been to http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ but still don't seem to be
getting the hang of this.

I am backing up about three years of e-mails. I have put them into
chronological folders of about 100 megs or less.

Because of the size of all of the e-mail I have tried to use the single
folder back up approach to back up the 2003 May June folder, then the 2003
Jul Aug folder etc.

After I transfered several dbx files to a compact disk I checked them to
make sure they were not read only. They were archive. But when I put the
cd
into the other machine and tried to copy them to that machine to confirm
that I had correctly backed them up, several of them appear to have become
"read only" somewhere along the way.

Any suggestions as to how to prevent the switch from "archive" to "read
only" from occurring?