On 7 Jul 2006 01:11:47 -0700, PaulFXH wrote:

After saving all of my important stuff to external hard drives, I
clean-installed the OS (re-install after reformat of HD) last Tuesday.
I then used the Files and Settings Transfer wizard to get the C: drive
back to where it was before the clean-install.
While, practically everything is now as it was before, I cannot seem to
retrieve my Outlook Express inbox (nor the Sent Items box).
As I still have copies of the C: drive on one of the externals HDs, I
have tried to copy the file "inbox.dbx" to C:\documents and
settings\paul\local settings\application data\Identities\
.....IDnumber.....\microsoft\outlook express. However, this made no
difference to the availability of the "old email" in my inbox.
Can anybody help me get these mails back?

I just copy the .dbx files I want to restore to a specific folder on the
HDD; not the same folder that MSOE is using for the message store. Then
I just run MSOE, and select the Import menu, and guide that to the
location of the .dbx folders. I can't recall which file attribute has to
be clear, either "Archvie", or "Read Only". I never had to change the
attribute when I have done it, though.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum