I must not have explained myself...I do have them in Outlook Express. When
I've exported them, although from the OE side, it appeared to have gone just
like any previous exports had gone BUT when I opened Outlook, they weren't
there. To make sure the other point I'm wondering about...I don't have any
e-mail accounts setup in OE. I'm only using it for my news at present
making me wonder if that might be why e-mail messages aren't exporting to
Outlook and/or Outlook can't "see" another e-mail program on my system.


"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
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