"italianjetli" wrote in message
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Mr. Hagen:

Thanks again for trying to help.

Using DBXpress to extract messages from dbx files is not recommended for
my
Win 98 OS according to the page you cited below,
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx:

KNOWN ISSUES

1. Using the extract from Disk function does not work in older operating
systems (Win9x or WinMe), but only in newer operating systems (Win2000,
WinXP, WinServer 2003, and Windows Vista). A hard drive from the older
operating systems can be connected to a computer running one of the newer
operating systems, and then the disk extraction will work.
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I also found a number of posts in older threads that not only indicated
the
Macallan OE extraction software did not work properly but that
instructions
or documentation for installing also was not available. I downloaded all
three zip files on the Macallan page often linked in posts and managed to
figure out that after installation, you had to open, in the program, the
dbx
file from which you were hoping to extract e-mail messages. The program
does
some processing in a Step One and then a Step Two, and if messages can be
extracted, they will appear in a worksheet view. When I tried to extract
messages from my corrupted folder, I received the error message "This
program
has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" -- which
indicates
there may no longer be messages in the dbx file.

Steve Cochran had a warning about the Macallan OE extraction software,
below, which I found in an older post (Subject: How to retrieve a
deleted
mail? 11/20/2006 5:12 AM PST):

The program you reference below [Macallan Outlook Express Extraction] will
not extract deleted messages. There is a special signature to such that
that
program is unaware of.


DBxtract will extract messages from a DBX file on Win98.

DBXpress will also extract messages from a DBX file on Win98. It's the
extract from disk function that won't work on Win98.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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