"Marnie Juel Shaw" wrote in
message ...
I used to use Outlook Express on my old Windows XP computer. I have all my
of Outlook Express dbx files stored on an external hard drive. I have
copied
them over to my new Windows Vista computer. Outlook Express is not on my
new
Windows Vista computer. I am using Office 2003 with Outlook 2003. I have
been unsuccessful at dowloading any of the free Outlook Express downloads
I
can find on the Internet. I have been unsuccessful at importing the DBX
files into my Outlook 2003. How can I read my stored Outlook Express DBX
files?


You need to get them into Windows Mail, the vista version of Outlook
Express. To do that, beats me.

A quick google found these steps:

1. Create a directory under the current user's Documents, such as
Documents\OEMail. This directory needs to be within the user's space, such
as under Documents, in order to prevent possible access permissions
problems.
2. Copy all the dbx files from one Outlook Express Identity into this
directory, ensuring that folders.dbx is included.
3. Go to Edit | Select all in Windows Explorer and select all the dbx files.
Then right click on the selection and choose Properties and ensure that the
read only attribute of the files is unchecked.
4. In Windows Mail go to File | Import Messages and choose Outlook Express 6
format and choose to import from a directory.
5. Then use the Browse button to browse to the directory of dbx files. Make
sure that when you set the directory that what is listed in the path is
correct (NOTE: Vista can put the wrong path in here sometimes, so instead of
c:\mypath it puts c:\mypath\mypath, so check the path to verify that it is
correct, and if it is not correct then fix it by clicking the Browse button
a second time and then leave the selection blank and clicking Okay.).
6. Then select the files from which you wish to import messages and click
Import.

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f.h.