Can someone please help me?? Recently my computer crashed and they had to
put in a new hard drive.. When restored some of my e-mail messages were there
and some not.. I had a lot of genealogy info in those dbx files, and would
like to restore them from a zip disk, however after I try to copy them from
an earlier backup, the folders are empty. What am I doing wrong.. I am SOOO
stupid about this stuff..!!!! All of the addresses and folders are there
from when she saved them.
Please help... In simple terms.. as I said.. I'm dumb about these things..
AND I'm OLD!! :^)) Thank you so much in advance...

Save the dbx files to your HDD. Right click on all and remove the Read Only
attribute. Did you include Folders.dbx? If you did, open OE and import them.

File | Import | Messages | MSOE6 and choose to Import from a store directory
and point to where you saved them.

If you did not include Folders.dbx, the import will fail and you will have
to get each dbx file into OE manually.

How to restore individual dbx files:
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Can someone please help me?? Recently my computer crashed and they had to
put in a new hard drive.. When restored some of my e-mail messages were
there
and some not.. I had a lot of genealogy info in those dbx files, and would
like to restore them from a zip disk, however after I try to copy them
from
an earlier backup, the folders are empty. What am I doing wrong.. I am
SOOO
stupid about this stuff..!!!! All of the addresses and folders are there
from when she saved them.
Please help... In simple terms.. as I said.. I'm dumb about these things..
AND I'm OLD!! :^)) Thank you so much in advance...

Thank you so much.. I will give this a try.. as I said I am pretty illiterate
about this stuff.. I am assuming HDD = hard drive??

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Save the dbx files to your HDD. Right click on all and remove the Read Only
attribute. Did you include Folders.dbx? If you did, open OE and import them.

File | Import | Messages | MSOE6 and choose to Import from a store directory
and point to where you saved them.

If you did not include Folders.dbx, the import will fail and you will have
to get each dbx file into OE manually.

How to restore individual dbx files:
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Can someone please help me?? Recently my computer crashed and they had to
put in a new hard drive.. When restored some of my e-mail messages were
there
and some not.. I had a lot of genealogy info in those dbx files, and would
like to restore them from a zip disk, however after I try to copy them
from
an earlier backup, the folders are empty. What am I doing wrong.. I am
SOOO
stupid about this stuff..!!!! All of the addresses and folders are there
from when she saved them.
Please help... In simple terms.. as I said.. I'm dumb about these things..
AND I'm OLD!! :^)) Thank you so much in advance...

Yes. Hard drive. Look at this also to see the most basic way to backup &
restore and see how it compares with what you did.

Backup & Resto
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Thank you so much.. I will give this a try.. as I said I am pretty
illiterate
about this stuff.. I am assuming HDD = hard drive??

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Save the dbx files to your HDD. Right click on all and remove the Read
Only
attribute. Did you include Folders.dbx? If you did, open OE and import
them.

File | Import | Messages | MSOE6 and choose to Import from a store
directory
and point to where you saved them.

If you did not include Folders.dbx, the import will fail and you will
have
to get each dbx file into OE manually.

How to restore individual dbx files:
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Can someone please help me?? Recently my computer crashed and they had
to
put in a new hard drive.. When restored some of my e-mail messages were
there
and some not.. I had a lot of genealogy info in those dbx files, and
would
like to restore them from a zip disk, however after I try to copy them
from
an earlier backup, the folders are empty. What am I doing wrong.. I
am
SOOO
stupid about this stuff..!!!! All of the addresses and folders are
there
from when she saved them.
Please help... In simple terms.. as I said.. I'm dumb about these
things..
AND I'm OLD!! :^)) Thank you so much in advance...

Well, I tried it.. didn't see a Folders.dbx, so tried to follow the
instructions to copy one folder at a time, but after creating the archiv1
folder in outlook express, i then went into windows explorer and tried to
find that folder to delete it like they told me in "importing single dbx
files into OE, and it was nowhere to be found.. went back into OE to see if
it was still there... yep.. so then tried to import one folde into it's
original... nope.. said there was nothing in the folder// looking at it (I
copied the zip disk onto my desktop for easy access) it says there are 778KB
in that folder// if I go into explorer and check the properties of the same
folder it also says 779kb, but if I go into OE and open the folder, there is
nothing there... Think I have probably messed it up royally... Now I am
completely LOST!!! Thank you so much for trying to help me.. Guess I am just
plain too old and dense!!

Folders in outlook express are not folders in the file system
In the file system they are a single .dbx file
file system folders are created and deleted in the file system, not in
outlook express.
I think you need to check again the instructions on the refs you were given,
the problems you describe dont come from the normal sequence for importing
messages from .dbx filesx

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"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Well, I tried it.. didn't see a Folders.dbx, so tried to follow the
instructions to copy one folder at a time, but after creating the archiv1
folder in outlook express, i then went into windows explorer and tried to
find that folder to delete it like they told me in "importing single dbx
files into OE, and it was nowhere to be found.. went back into OE to see
if
it was still there... yep.. so then tried to import one folde into it's
original... nope.. said there was nothing in the folder// looking at it (I
copied the zip disk onto my desktop for easy access) it says there are
778KB
in that folder// if I go into explorer and check the properties of the
same
folder it also says 779kb, but if I go into OE and open the folder, there
is
nothing there... Think I have probably messed it up royally... Now I am
completely LOST!!! Thank you so much for trying to help me.. Guess I am
just
plain too old and dense!!

I think you may have deleted the wrong file. I will reword it.

First, put all the dbx files that you are trying to get into OE on the
Desktop. Rename them to anything you want. Saved Mail.dbx would be fine as
an example. Open OE and create a folder with the *exact* same name as the
one on the Desktop, (Saved Mail). Open the new folder and then close OE. Go
to Windows Explorer and locate the Message Store folder for your OE
identity, but don't open it. Click on the Desktop and drag the file from the
Desktop in the right hand pane to the OE store folder in the left pane.
Prompt - "Do you want to overwrite......."? Click Yes.

You can create all the folders in OE at one time, but you have to do the
rest one at a time as you have to access each new folder and then close OE
before proceeding.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Well, I tried it.. didn't see a Folders.dbx, so tried to follow the
instructions to copy one folder at a time, but after creating the archiv1
folder in outlook express, i then went into windows explorer and tried to
find that folder to delete it like they told me in "importing single dbx
files into OE, and it was nowhere to be found.. went back into OE to see
if
it was still there... yep.. so then tried to import one folde into it's
original... nope.. said there was nothing in the folder// looking at it (I
copied the zip disk onto my desktop for easy access) it says there are
778KB
in that folder// if I go into explorer and check the properties of the
same
folder it also says 779kb, but if I go into OE and open the folder, there
is
nothing there... Think I have probably messed it up royally... Now I am
completely LOST!!! Thank you so much for trying to help me.. Guess I am
just
plain too old and dense!!

Well, this is the pits... I am so sorry.. I just can't seem to get this
working... I thought I followed all of your directions.. went in through
Windows Explorer, created the folder.. dragged it over and dumped it on OE...
still nothing.. I did Copy all of the folders to desktop, so maybe I was
supposed to do one folder at a time? All folders/(files??) were in one
folder.. so then I tried to move just one and still nothing.. I probably have
so many duplicated on here now that it isn't funny.. Guess I really am dumb..
or something... Anyway.. thank you again for your help.. sorry I wasted your
time for nothing...

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

I think you may have deleted the wrong file. I will reword it.

First, put all the dbx files that you are trying to get into OE on the
Desktop. Rename them to anything you want. Saved Mail.dbx would be fine as
an example. Open OE and create a folder with the *exact* same name as the
one on the Desktop, (Saved Mail). Open the new folder and then close OE. Go
to Windows Explorer and locate the Message Store folder for your OE
identity, but don't open it. Click on the Desktop and drag the file from the
Desktop in the right hand pane to the OE store folder in the left pane.
Prompt - "Do you want to overwrite......."? Click Yes.

You can create all the folders in OE at one time, but you have to do the
rest one at a time as you have to access each new folder and then close OE
before proceeding.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Well, I tried it.. didn't see a Folders.dbx, so tried to follow the
instructions to copy one folder at a time, but after creating the archiv1
folder in outlook express, i then went into windows explorer and tried to
find that folder to delete it like they told me in "importing single dbx
files into OE, and it was nowhere to be found.. went back into OE to see
if
it was still there... yep.. so then tried to import one folde into it's
original... nope.. said there was nothing in the folder// looking at it (I
copied the zip disk onto my desktop for easy access) it says there are
778KB
in that folder// if I go into explorer and check the properties of the
same
folder it also says 779kb, but if I go into OE and open the folder, there
is
nothing there... Think I have probably messed it up royally... Now I am
completely LOST!!! Thank you so much for trying to help me.. Guess I am
just
plain too old and dense!!

You create the folder in Outlook Express. Then you open the folder and close
OE. /Then/ you go to Windows Explorer and drag the dbx file from the Desktop
to the Outlook Express folder, (Message Store). You don't create the folder
in Windows Explorer.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Well, this is the pits... I am so sorry.. I just can't seem to get this
working... I thought I followed all of your directions.. went in through
Windows Explorer, created the folder.. dragged it over and dumped it on
OE...
still nothing.. I did Copy all of the folders to desktop, so maybe I was
supposed to do one folder at a time? All folders/(files??) were in one
folder.. so then I tried to move just one and still nothing.. I probably
have
so many duplicated on here now that it isn't funny.. Guess I really am
dumb..
or something... Anyway.. thank you again for your help.. sorry I wasted
your
time for nothing...

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

I think you may have deleted the wrong file. I will reword it.

First, put all the dbx files that you are trying to get into OE on the
Desktop. Rename them to anything you want. Saved Mail.dbx would be fine
as
an example. Open OE and create a folder with the *exact* same name as the
one on the Desktop, (Saved Mail). Open the new folder and then close OE.
Go
to Windows Explorer and locate the Message Store folder for your OE
identity, but don't open it. Click on the Desktop and drag the file from
the
Desktop in the right hand pane to the OE store folder in the left pane.
Prompt - "Do you want to overwrite......."? Click Yes.

You can create all the folders in OE at one time, but you have to do the
rest one at a time as you have to access each new folder and then close
OE
before proceeding.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Well, I tried it.. didn't see a Folders.dbx, so tried to follow the
instructions to copy one folder at a time, but after creating the
archiv1
folder in outlook express, i then went into windows explorer and tried
to
find that folder to delete it like they told me in "importing single
dbx
files into OE, and it was nowhere to be found.. went back into OE to
see
if
it was still there... yep.. so then tried to import one folde into it's
original... nope.. said there was nothing in the folder// looking at it
(I
copied the zip disk onto my desktop for easy access) it says there are
778KB
in that folder// if I go into explorer and check the properties of the
same
folder it also says 779kb, but if I go into OE and open the folder,
there
is
nothing there... Think I have probably messed it up royally... Now I
am
completely LOST!!! Thank you so much for trying to help me.. Guess I
am
just
plain too old and dense!!

From my late entry here, it seems there's a folder/file
terminology mix-up.

On the saved .dbx entities, there should be no folder
work needed, unless you just wanted to categorize or
organize the files.

Just do one .dbx file at a time until successful.

1). Note the location of your OE stores location with
toolsoptionsmaintenancestore folder. Cancel
any change.

2). Pick one of the backup .dbx files and carefully note
the name, and directory location.

3). Open/initiate OE and proceed to the local folders
section in the left pane of the display. Right click on
the local folders, and choose new folder. Although
the term folder is used, it's not really an OS folder.
In response to the folder name query, enter the name
of the saved .dbx file obtained in #2. But, don't include
the .dbx suffix.

4). After success with #3. close OE, and find the direct-
ory defined as the store location, obtained from #1.
Take note of the new .dbx file generated there in resp-
onse to your create new folder request.

5). Now find the directory where you have stored the
backup .dbx file that was referred to in #2. This would
have also been the identical .dbx name used in the
create new folder request.

6). If the file names shown from the #4 review and the #5
review are identical, you are ready to swap the files.

7). Using whatever file move technique you're comfortab-
le with, copy the saved .dbx file noted in #2, to the OE
store location directory noted in #1. You should absol-
utely receive a confirmation to overwrite the receiving
file. If you don't receive this confirmation request, the
two files are unlike in name and must be corrected.

8). If successful this far, start OE once again. Proceed
to the local folders section in the left pane, and see
the new folder you previously created. Left click on
that new folder, and your backup .dbx contents will
appear.

Anything else, and you'll have to start over and proceed
very carefully.





"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Well, this is the pits... I am so sorry.. I just can't seem to get this
working... I thought I followed all of your directions.. went in through
Windows Explorer, created the folder.. dragged it over and dumped it on
OE...
still nothing.. I did Copy all of the folders to desktop, so maybe I was
supposed to do one folder at a time? All folders/(files??) were in one
folder.. so then I tried to move just one and still nothing.. I probably
have
so many duplicated on here now that it isn't funny.. Guess I really am
dumb..
or something... Anyway.. thank you again for your help.. sorry I wasted
your
time for nothing...

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

I think you may have deleted the wrong file. I will reword it.

First, put all the dbx files that you are trying to get into OE on the
Desktop. Rename them to anything you want. Saved Mail.dbx would be fine
as
an example. Open OE and create a folder with the *exact* same name as the
one on the Desktop, (Saved Mail). Open the new folder and then close OE.
Go
to Windows Explorer and locate the Message Store folder for your OE
identity, but don't open it. Click on the Desktop and drag the file from
the
Desktop in the right hand pane to the OE store folder in the left pane.
Prompt - "Do you want to overwrite......."? Click Yes.

You can create all the folders in OE at one time, but you have to do the
rest one at a time as you have to access each new folder and then close
OE
before proceeding.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Bonk" wrote in message
...
Well, I tried it.. didn't see a Folders.dbx, so tried to follow the
instructions to copy one folder at a time, but after creating the
archiv1
folder in outlook express, i then went into windows explorer and tried
to
find that folder to delete it like they told me in "importing single
dbx
files into OE, and it was nowhere to be found.. went back into OE to
see
if
it was still there... yep.. so then tried to import one folde into it's
original... nope.. said there was nothing in the folder// looking at it
(I
copied the zip disk onto my desktop for easy access) it says there are
778KB
in that folder// if I go into explorer and check the properties of the
same
folder it also says 779kb, but if I go into OE and open the folder,
there
is
nothing there... Think I have probably messed it up royally... Now I
am
completely LOST!!! Thank you so much for trying to help me.. Guess I
am
just
plain too old and dense!!