"PA Bear" wrote in message
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No, that's the time to do it: After copying them to the HDD but before
attempting the import.

If you can't import a single DBX file (see other posts in this thread),
chances are that it's not usable due corruption/damage somewhere along the
line, and the same may hold true for the rest of 'em.

Before creating a backup, users should *always* compact all OE folders.

Wrong. G Before compacting the folders, the users should always create a
backup.

You aren't going to cause a problem backing up the store, but you for sure
can when compacting, just because "OE Happens".

I'm strongly advising people never to compact the message store without
backing up first.

steve


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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

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

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