i have recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything, but
outlook express wont inport my old emails and folders, i have been into the
backup and taken off the "read only" what else can i try? Please help.
Boopygirl

Did you follow the instructions at this website? If not, please read
the info on it carefully and most of the problems should be outlined.
If not, post back.
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
feedback.


"boopygirl" wrote in message
...
i have recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything,
but
outlook express wont inport my old emails and folders, i have been
into the
backup and taken off the "read only" what else can i try? Please help.
Boopygirl

I did indeed use this site and ended up having to buy a program that didnt do
what it was supposed to do. I am left with onlky my new email and non of my
old emails at all.
abetty

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

Did you follow the instructions at this website? If not, please read
the info on it carefully and most of the problems should be outlined.
If not, post back.
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
feedback.


"boopygirl" wrote in message
...
i have recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything,
but
outlook express wont inport my old emails and folders, i have been
into the
backup and taken off the "read only" what else can i try? Please help.
Boopygirl

See here for message recovery techniques: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

If you are importing from a backed up directory, then copy it to the hard
drive and clear the read only attributes before doing the import. See here
(last paragraph) to import individual dbx files: www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

steve

"boopygirl" wrote in message
news
I did indeed use this site and ended up having to buy a program that didnt
do
what it was supposed to do. I am left with onlky my new email and non of
my
old emails at all.
abetty

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

Did you follow the instructions at this website? If not, please read
the info on it carefully and most of the problems should be outlined.
If not, post back.
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
feedback.


"boopygirl" wrote in message
...
i have recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything,
but
outlook express wont inport my old emails and folders, i have been
into the
backup and taken off the "read only" what else can i try? Please help.
Boopygirl

As I stated in my first post I already did this but no joy there.
Betty
"Steve Cochran" wrote:

See here for message recovery techniques: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

If you are importing from a backed up directory, then copy it to the hard
drive and clear the read only attributes before doing the import. See here
(last paragraph) to import individual dbx files: www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

steve

"boopygirl" wrote in message
news
I did indeed use this site and ended up having to buy a program that didnt
do
what it was supposed to do. I am left with onlky my new email and non of
my
old emails at all.
abetty

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

Did you follow the instructions at this website? If not, please read
the info on it carefully and most of the problems should be outlined.
If not, post back.
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
feedback.


"boopygirl" wrote in message
...
i have recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything,
but
outlook express wont inport my old emails and folders, i have been
into the
backup and taken off the "read only" what else can i try? Please help.
Boopygirl

"boopygirl" wrote in message
...
i have recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything, but
outlook express wont inport my old emails and folders, i have been into
the
backup and taken off the "read only" what else can i try? Please help.
Boopygirl

You haven't really told us what you did to save your email before formatting
the drive.
Did you save all of the DBX files?
Did you include Folders.dbx?
Did you copy the DBX files back to an empty folder on the hard drive?
Did you remove the Read Only attribute?
Did you then use OE's File | Import | Messages?

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Please reply in newsgroup. Do NOT send email.

yes I saved all files including the dbx files and they all show up but wont
open on the saved drive and the reinstalled drive. but i have a folders file
but no folders dbx file on either of these drives. Yes they all went into a
brand new folder on the hard drive. and i removed the read onlys, and then i
tried the OE import messages but they dont show up in OE. Betty

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

"boopygirl" wrote in message
...
i have recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything, but
outlook express wont inport my old emails and folders, i have been into
the
backup and taken off the "read only" what else can i try? Please help.
Boopygirl

You haven't really told us what you did to save your email before formatting
the drive.
Did you save all of the DBX files?
Did you include Folders.dbx?
Did you copy the DBX files back to an empty folder on the hard drive?
Did you remove the Read Only attribute?
Did you then use OE's File | Import | Messages?

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Please reply in newsgroup. Do NOT send email.

Without folders.dbx from the original message store the files were in,
an import will always fail. There is a workaround outlined at this
website:
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
feedback.


"boopygirl" wrote in message
...
yes I saved all files including the dbx files and they all show up but
wont
open on the saved drive and the reinstalled drive. but i have a
folders file
but no folders dbx file on either of these drives. Yes they all went
into a
brand new folder on the hard drive. and i removed the read onlys, and
then i
tried the OE import messages but they dont show up in OE. Betty

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

"boopygirl" wrote in message
...
i have recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled
everything, but
outlook express wont inport my old emails and folders, i have been
into
the
backup and taken off the "read only" what else can i try? Please
help.
Boopygirl

You haven't really told us what you did to save your email before
formatting
the drive.
Did you save all of the DBX files?
Did you include Folders.dbx?
Did you copy the DBX files back to an empty folder on the hard drive?
Did you remove the Read Only attribute?
Did you then use OE's File | Import | Messages?

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Please reply in newsgroup. Do NOT send email.

First, if there is no Folders.dbx then you did not save all of the DBX
files. You have to have Folders.dbx in your current message store. If it
isn't there OE makes it when it opens. There is a slight possibility that
the .dbx is yidden.
You can copy Inbox.dbx, Deleted Items.dbx, Drafts.dbx, Outbox.dbx and Sent
Items.dbx to OE's current store location, overwriting the existing
folders... For the others, open OE and created OE folders it exactly the
same name (the part before the .dbx) and open each one after creationg it.
Then close OE and overwrite the new DBX files with the saved DBX files.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Please reply in newsgroup. Do NOT send email.

"boopygirl" wrote in message
...
yes I saved all files including the dbx files and they all show up but
wont
open on the saved drive and the reinstalled drive. but i have a folders
file
but no folders dbx file on either of these drives. Yes they all went into
a
brand new folder on the hard drive. and i removed the read onlys, and then
i
tried the OE import messages but they dont show up in OE. Betty

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

"boopygirl" wrote in message
...
i have recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything,
but
outlook express wont inport my old emails and folders, i have been into
the
backup and taken off the "read only" what else can i try? Please help.
Boopygirl

You haven't really told us what you did to save your email before
formatting
the drive.
Did you save all of the DBX files?
Did you include Folders.dbx?
Did you copy the DBX files back to an empty folder on the hard drive?
Did you remove the Read Only attribute?
Did you then use OE's File | Import | Messages?

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Please reply in newsgroup. Do NOT send email.

"boopygirl" wrote in message
...
yes I saved all files including the dbx files and they all show up but
wont
open on the saved drive and the reinstalled drive. but i have a folders
file
but no folders dbx file on either of these drives. Yes they all went into
a
brand new folder on the hard drive. and i removed the read onlys, and then
i
tried the OE import messages but they dont show up in OE. Betty

Open them side by side, create a new folder of the name in OE, open each
saved folder, Ctrl,A to select all, use drag n drop into the OE folder.