What you have in mind is most likely going to be a two step process. First,
open Outlook Express and use its menu, File/Import/Messages/OE6/From a
Message Store and point to the folder containing the old DBX files. Once
that completes, you can then export from Outlook Express to Outlook or open
Outlook and import from its menu. In other words, you've got to get the
messages into Outlook Express before you can export/import them to anywhere.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
feedback.


"TS Mathews" wrote in message
news:Bw9zg.176721$S61.170136@edtnps90...
As I'm not sure whether this is an OE or an Outlook question, I'm posting
to both--I hope the method is correct for posting in two groups without
being considered an idiot. ;-)


I thought I had lost a bunch of old e-mail a reformat or two before
getting rid of my old computer but when I saw something about DBXpress on
this forum a day or two ago I decided to give it a try and, sure enough,
it found all the dbx files on my external hard drive on which I'd saved my
entire old data drive.

On my new system, I'm using Outlook 2007 beta and didn't plan on setting
up OE as I need to be able to sync easily with my pda so I was planning on
waiting for Windows Mail to make the switch BUT, I had hoped I could
exports those old messages from OE to Outlook so I'd have them for
reference and the export seemed to work just fine but when I tried to find
them in Outlook, they don't show up. I knew I'd lose the dates on them if
I tried to import them into Outlook but I wanted to see if they'd at least
show up so I began the import just to see what options would be there but
I got the prompt that Outlook found no other mail programs on my system.

I'm assuming this is because I only have OE set up as my newsreader, so,
my question is, does anyone from either OE or Outlook know if that's the
only problem or might it be something to do with the fact that I'm trying
to export from OE to the beta Outlook which didn't exist when OE's export
utility was written?

Thanks,
Tim