Hello all

Sorry to bring this up again, but....

A friend of mine lives in France and London and travels between the two
places regularly. To make sure her emails etc are backed up, she saved her
important files in France as .dbx files on a zip disk. However, when she
tried to import them onto her laptop here, (using XP Home SP2 and OE6) the
system seems to have done what it was supposed to but the files do not show
up anywhere in OE.

I have followed the instructions given elsewhere in this group as at
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx, made sure the folders file
was included in the files to be imported and still nothing. I tried
importing the (French) address book, saved as a .wab file, and that worked
perfectly.

No matter which way I try to import these files, they appear to be accepted
but do not show up. I have closed OE and restarted it and even re-booted
the computer, but it made no difference.

I do not think the language difference is a factor though I am prepared to
be corrected on this. Any light that can be shed on this would be a great
relief


Strange lad
--
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
www.fsor.co.uk

Have you tried " How do I import a single mail folder (*.dbx)? " on the same
Web site?
--
Ron Sommer

"Strange lad" wrote in message
...
Hello all

Sorry to bring this up again, but....

A friend of mine lives in France and London and travels between the two
places regularly. To make sure her emails etc are backed up, she saved
her important files in France as .dbx files on a zip disk. However, when
she tried to import them onto her laptop here, (using XP Home SP2 and OE6)
the system seems to have done what it was supposed to but the files do not
show up anywhere in OE.

I have followed the instructions given elsewhere in this group as at
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx, made sure the folders file
was included in the files to be imported and still nothing. I tried
importing the (French) address book, saved as a .wab file, and that worked
perfectly.

No matter which way I try to import these files, they appear to be
accepted but do not show up. I have closed OE and restarted it and even
re-booted the computer, but it made no difference.

I do not think the language difference is a factor though I am prepared to
be corrected on this. Any light that can be shed on this would be a great
relief


Strange lad
--
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
www.fsor.co.uk

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
...
Have you tried " How do I import a single mail folder (*.dbx)? " on the
same Web site?
--
Ron Sommer


Hi Ron

Yes, I tried that. It again seemed to be performing the procedure properly
but nothing showed up in OE.

I did omit to mention that the version of OE supplied was one that came with
a Wanadoo broadband installation and not the bog standard OE that you get
with Windoze. I don't know how much they alter the MS software or whether
it could cause these problems.


Thanks

Strange lad
--
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
www.fsor.co.uk

Make sure the file you are trying to import is not read only. Copy all the
dbx files off the CD into a blank directory and then Right click on them and
clear the read only attribute, as OE will not import read only files.

steve

"Strange lad" wrote in message
...
"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
...
Have you tried " How do I import a single mail folder (*.dbx)? " on the
same Web site?
--
Ron Sommer


Hi Ron

Yes, I tried that. It again seemed to be performing the procedure
properly but nothing showed up in OE.

I did omit to mention that the version of OE supplied was one that came
with a Wanadoo broadband installation and not the bog standard OE that you
get with Windoze. I don't know how much they alter the MS software or
whether it could cause these problems.


Thanks

Strange lad
--
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
www.fsor.co.uk

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
Make sure the file you are trying to import is not read only. Copy all
the dbx files off the CD into a blank directory and then Right click on
them and clear the read only attribute, as OE will not import read only
files.

steve



Hi Steve

I did that too. Downloaded the files to a folder on the desktop (so I could
be sure they were the correct files and easy to find) but they were
supposedly imported but will not show up anywhere in OE. This is why this
is such a frustrating problem.

Strange lad
--
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
www.fsor.co.uk

Are both machines English-language versions of WinXP SP2?

Is she trying to import directly from the zip disk?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org


Strange lad wrote:
A friend of mine lives in France and London and travels between the two
places regularly. To make sure her emails etc are backed up, she saved
her important files in France as .dbx files on a zip disk. However, when
she tried to import them onto her laptop here, (using XP Home SP2 and
OE6) the system seems to have done what it was supposed to but the files
do not show up anywhere in OE.

I have followed the instructions given elsewhere in this group as at
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx, made sure the folders file
was included in the files to be imported and still nothing. I tried
importing the (French) address book, saved as a .wab file, and that worked
perfectly.

No matter which way I try to import these files, they appear to be
accepted but do not show up. I have closed OE and restarted it and even
re-booted the computer, but it made no difference.

I do not think the language difference is a factor though I am prepared to
be corrected on this. Any light that can be shed on this would be a great
relief

"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
Are both machines English-language versions of WinXP SP2?

Is she trying to import directly from the zip disk?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org




Hi Pa

Non, both are French WIN XP Home. I transferred the files from the zip disk
to the HDD and included the Folders.dbx file. So far, nuffink.

Any help?

Strange lad
--
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
www.fsor.co.uk

"Strange lad" wrote in message
...
"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
Are both machines English-language versions of WinXP SP2?

Is she trying to import directly from the zip disk?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org




Hi Pa

Non, both are French WIN XP Home. I transferred the files from the zip
disk to the HDD and included the Folders.dbx file. So far, nuffink.

Any help?

Strange lad
--
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
www.fsor.co.uk


The View setting is retained during the transfer.
Have you changed the view to Show All Messages?
--
Ron Sommer

Are both machines English-language versions of WinXP SP2?

Is she trying to import directly from the zip disk?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org




Hi Pa

Non, both are French WIN XP Home. I transferred the files from the zip
disk to the HDD and included the Folders.dbx file. So far, nuffink.

Any help?

Strange lad
--
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
www.fsor.co.uk


The View setting is retained during the transfer.
Have you changed the view to Show All Messages?
--
Ron Sommer



Hi Ron

I didn't check - I will do so once I have berated myself for a fool and
kicked myself in the tochis.

Thanks - I'll post here if it makes a difference!


Strange lad
--
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
www.fsor.co.uk

Strange lad wrote:
Are both machines English-language versions of WinXP SP2?

Is she trying to import directly from the zip disk?
--
Non, both are French WIN XP Home. I transferred the files from the zip
disk to the HDD and included the Folders.dbx file. So far, nuffink.

Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup.

Before importing from the HDD into OE, did you remove the Read Only
attribute the DBX files probably have?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

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Strange lad wrote:
A friend of mine lives in France and London and travels between the two
places regularly. To make sure her emails etc are backed up, she saved
her important files in France as .dbx files on a zip disk. However, when
she tried to import them onto her laptop here, (using XP Home SP2 and
OE6) the system seems to have done what it was supposed to but the files
do not show up anywhere in OE.

I have followed the instructions given elsewhere in this group as at
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx, made sure the folders file
was included in the files to be imported and still nothing. I tried
importing the (French) address book, saved as a .wab file, and that worked
perfectly.

No matter which way I try to import these files, they appear to be
accepted but do not show up. I have closed OE and restarted it and even
re-booted the computer, but it made no difference.

I do not think the language difference is a factor though I am prepared to
be corrected on this. Any light that can be shed on this would be a great
relief