Patience is a virtue, Andrew. See replies to your first thread.

Importing an Address Book has no affect whatsoever on your OE folders.

References:

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1

All About Address Book
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm
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Andrew Stucken wrote:
When trying to restore my Outlook Express (v.6) address book from a backup
disk, I suffered a double whammy: the address book failed to restore and
my
mail folders were overwritten. As I backed up two months ago , I have lost
my most recent two months' of stored e-mails.

Luckily I have just started backing daily up to an external hard disk so
all the folders are on there - my question is, how do I locate and copy
them
from the external hard disk to the internal one?

TIA

Andrew Stucken