Thank you.

Changing it on the destination computer dbx rather than the cd worked.

I have also copied the folder.dbx although the files were opening without
it. ?Perhaps? because I have the same outlook express on both computers.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

My entire OE Message Store is only 107 MB. Yours is huge. If you feel all
those old messages are that important, then I would go out and buy a 1GB
Flash Drive and use that instead of a CD and backup the entire Message Store
in one shot.

If you want to save individual files to CD and then restore them on a new
machine, you can do a manual import of each folder doing this.

See the last paragraph her and the link within to restore individual dbx
files:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

I have never done this, but check it out. I don't know if there is any
limitations.

If you are transferring to another PC, and have access to a Windows XP setup
CD, or if both computers are running Windows XP, see:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...pten.mspx#EBAA
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Visitor" wrote in message
...
Because I have to move files that wont all fit on a cd at the same time, I
have to transfer them in subsets. Would I copy the Folders.dbx with each
subset?

What do I do with the folders.dbx file on each cd when I go to transfer
the
files on the cd to the store folder on the destination machine? Does it
erase
the fodlers.dbx that pre-exists on the destination machine? There are
other
unrelated dbx files on the destination machine's OE.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

If you save individual dbx files, you must include Folders.dbx for the
Import process to work.

Reference: Backup & Resto
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/backup/
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Visitor" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have been to http://www.insideoe.com/backup/ but still don't seem to
be
getting the hang of this.

I am backing up about three years of e-mails. I have put them into
chronological folders of about 100 megs or less.

Because of the size of all of the e-mail I have tried to use the single
folder back up approach to back up the 2003 May June folder, then the
2003
Jul Aug folder etc.

After I transfered several dbx files to a compact disk I checked them
to
make sure they were not read only. They were archive. But when I put
the
cd
into the other machine and tried to copy them to that machine to
confirm
that
I had correctly backed them up, several of them appear to have become
"read
only" somewhere along the way.

Any suggestions as to how to prevent the switch from "archive" to "read
only" from occurring?