"Bill Ridgeway" wrote in message
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"Poprivet`" wrote in message
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Bill Ridgeway wrote:
I keep emails in subject folders which, in turn, are
backed up. I now need to refer to a particular email. Having restored
the folder, how do I extract that
particular email please?
Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

Depends on what you mean by "extract".

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Thanks Poprivet. It was a little while ago but other things and Christmas
have got in the way.

I keep a copy of all *.dbx folders in which individual OE emails are
stored. Occasionaly I need to restore a particular email (which has since
been deleted from OE and the current folder) and it's occured to me that
it's no good keeping emails in an archive if I don't know how to restore
individual emails. Would you please suggest a way around this problem.

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway



I deleted this thread as I thought it was done with a long time ago so I
don't have much to go on. except what you see here.

You should always back up your dbx files, but backing them up and then
deleting the folder, or message in OE is not a way I would do it.

If you want to save space in the OE folder tree, simply create another
identity and import folders there for archiving.

As for restoring messages you have now, you have to restore the entire dbx
file to get any of the messages. This is how you could do it if the dbx file
was on the Desktop. Make changes as needed.

Open OE and create a folder with the *exact* same name as the one on the
Desktop. Open the new folder and then close OE. Go to Windows Explorer and
locate the Message Store folder for your OE identity, but don't open it.
Click on the Desktop and drag the file from the Desktop in the right hand
pane to the OE store folder in the left pane. Prompt - "Do you want to
overwrite......."? Click Yes.
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