Hi
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?

TIA
Paul

Dell 4550 Desktop
WinXP Home SP2
CPU P4, 2.53 GHz
1.0 GB RAM
Int HD 80 GB ntfs, non-partitioned
Ext HD 160 GB ntfs, non-partitioned

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

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Hi
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?

TIA
Paul

Dell 4550 Desktop
WinXP Home SP2
CPU P4, 2.53 GHz
1.0 GB RAM
Int HD 80 GB ntfs, non-partitioned
Ext HD 160 GB ntfs, non-partitioned


Backing up and Cloning your OE Identities
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...pten.mspx#EBAA
Number 1
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...ten.mspx#E3EAC
and
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve
neither liberty or security"

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE wrote:



Backing up and Cloning your OE Identities
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...pten.mspx#EBAA
Number 1
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...ten.mspx#E3EAC
and
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Thanks to Norman and Frank for helping with this problem.
I've now got EVERYTHING back just using FilesImportMessages. It could
hardly have been more simple.
Nothing like recovery from a clean-install to expose whatever
shortcomings you might have about knowledge of your own system.
Paul


--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve
neither liberty or security"

que tal paul soy una chica de España de palma de mallorca
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE wrote:



Backing up and Cloning your OE Identities
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...pten.mspx#EBAA
Number 1
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...ten.mspx#E3EAC
and
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Thanks to Norman and Frank for helping with this problem.
I've now got EVERYTHING back just using FilesImportMessages. It could
hardly have been more simple.
Nothing like recovery from a clean-install to expose whatever
shortcomings you might have about knowledge of your own system.
Paul


--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve
neither liberty or security"