Couldn't you just search for .dbx files and then copy and paste them into
any folder of your choice? You can subsequently import those folders into
OE if anything goes wrong.

There is an excellent web-page (which I can probably point out to but I am
feeling rather lazy and sleepy at the moment!) re this procedure without
using the Search facility to copy and paste. But it is still basically the
same procedure. COPY & PASTE and then IMPORT. It really is a very simple
procedure once you have done it a couple of times.

And if you do not import them, they stay there as a backup of your email
folders.

I can't understand why OE doesn't save individual emails as individual
files. Maybe they were sleepy and tired while they wrote the software --
just like I am right at this moment!

But note this posting by Bruce Hagen, MS-MVP who obviously is an experton
such matters....

It depends how you saved them. If you didn't include Folders.dbx, an import
will fail.

Backup & Resto
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/

See this for message recovery techniques:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

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choro-nik
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"...winston" wrote in message
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Utility...I've not seen one
Create identical names subfolders on the hard drive location of your choice.
Open up two windows(one for OE and one using Windows Explorer for the new
folders)
Resize both Windows side by side or top to bottom.
Drag the items from the respective folder in OE to the same named folders in
the Windows Explorer view.
....winston

"PT" wrote in message
...
: I've accumulated a large number of old emails, sorted into a tree of
folders
: and subfolders. I'd like to retain their contents outside of OE6,
: preferably in a similar nested set of folders containing Word or Notepad
: files. Is there any utility which would do this?
:
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: PT
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