Is there a small freeware program that will let me read dbx files?

Thank you

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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Yes. It's called Outlook Express.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Walter R." wrote in message
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Is there a small freeware program that will let me read dbx files?

Thank you

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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Have you ever tried opening a .dbx file in Documents and Settings? It will
just tell you that "Windows can not open this file".

There must be a better way.

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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Yes. It's called Outlook Express.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Walter R." wrote in message
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Is there a small freeware program that will let me read dbx files?

Thank you

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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The contents of your dbx files are your e-mail messages. There is no reason
to open them up. If you could, all you would see is the same messages that
are in your OE folders.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Walter R." wrote in message
...
Have you ever tried opening a .dbx file in Documents and Settings? It will
just tell you that "Windows can not open this file".

There must be a better way.

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Yes. It's called Outlook Express.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Walter R." wrote in message
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Is there a small freeware program that will let me read dbx files?

Thank you

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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Do not associate msimn.exe with dbx files.

If you want to view the contents of a dbx file, follow the instructions for
Single Folder:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/partial.htm
--
Ron Sommer


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
The contents of your dbx files are your e-mail messages. There is no
reason to open them up. If you could, all you would see is the same
messages that are in your OE folders.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Walter R." wrote in message
...
Have you ever tried opening a .dbx file in Documents and Settings? It
will just tell you that "Windows can not open this file".

There must be a better way.

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
-
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Yes. It's called Outlook Express.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Walter R." wrote in message
...
Is there a small freeware program that will let me read dbx files?

Thank you

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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It's still the same messages that are in the folder now.

Bruce

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
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Do not associate msimn.exe with dbx files.

If you want to view the contents of a dbx file, follow the instructions
for
Single Folder:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/partial.htm
--
Ron Sommer


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
The contents of your dbx files are your e-mail messages. There is no
reason to open them up. If you could, all you would see is the same
messages that are in your OE folders.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Walter R." wrote in message
...
Have you ever tried opening a .dbx file in Documents and Settings? It
will just tell you that "Windows can not open this file".

There must be a better way.

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
-
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Yes. It's called Outlook Express.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Walter R." wrote in message
...
Is there a small freeware program that will let me read dbx files?

Thank you

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Walter R." wrote in message
...
Have you ever tried opening a .dbx file in Documents and Settings? It
will just tell you that "Windows can not open this file".

There must be a better way.

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
-
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Yes. It's called Outlook Express.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Walter R." wrote in message
...
Is there a small freeware program that will let me read dbx files?

Thank you

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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A DBX file is a database file. Like all database files, it is intended to
be opened only with the program that created it. While it is true that you
can open a DBX file using Notepad or Wordpad (by using the Open With option)
you would find the information useless to you since it is broken into 512
byte segments and parts are scattered willy nilly throughout the file.

So "the better way" is to use the program that created the file and that is
Outlook Express.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"Walter R." wrote in message
...
Have you ever tried opening a .dbx file in Documents and Settings? It will
just tell you that "Windows can not open this file".

There must be a better way.

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
-
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Yes. It's called Outlook Express.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Walter R." wrote in message
...
Is there a small freeware program that will let me read dbx files?

Thank you

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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Walter R. wrote:
Is there a small freeware program that will let me read dbx files?

This may do what you need.
http://www.mitec.cz/oe.htm

The download link for the free viewer is
http://www.mitec.cz/Downloads/OEView.zip

--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio