See the last paragraph on this page to import individual dbx files:
www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

If you still get nothing, try opening one of the dbx files with Notepad and
see if there is anything like a message piece in it. If the files were not
verified when they were burned onto the CD, they may not have burned
properly

steve

"Strange lad" wrote in message
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Hi

No, I removed the Read Only attribute after I had copied them to the HDD -
does this make a difference?

sorry about the snips btw.

strange lad

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"PA Bear" wrote in message
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Strange lad wrote:
Are both machines English-language versions of WinXP SP2?

Is she trying to import directly from the zip disk?
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Non, both are French WIN XP Home. I transferred the files from the zip
disk to the HDD and included the Folders.dbx file. So far, nuffink.

Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the
newsgroup.

Before importing from the HDD into OE, did you remove the Read Only
attribute the DBX files probably have?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

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Strange lad wrote:
A friend of mine lives in France and London and travels between the two
places regularly. To make sure her emails etc are backed up, she saved
her important files in France as .dbx files on a zip disk. However,
when
she tried to import them onto her laptop here, (using XP Home SP2 and
OE6) the system seems to have done what it was supposed to but the files
do not show up anywhere in OE.

I have followed the instructions given elsewhere in this group as at
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx, made sure the folders
file
was included in the files to be imported and still nothing. I tried
importing the (French) address book, saved as a .wab file, and that
worked
perfectly.

No matter which way I try to import these files, they appear to be
accepted but do not show up. I have closed OE and restarted it and even
re-booted the computer, but it made no difference.

I do not think the language difference is a factor though I am prepared
to
be corrected on this. Any light that can be shed on this would be a
great
relief